Quotes About Serendipity

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

One must never disregard a message from the universe.

I have never found 'luck' a dependable companion

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet

Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

Smile… Even when your life is at its worst, you never know when you'll meet the one who takes your breath away!

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

We charm by coincidence rather than design.

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

and a thousand other stories waiting to unfold, dependent on the births of children, the movement of people in the streets, the songs of birds at certain moments, the precise position of chairs, the wind.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

We just happened to be in the same moment at the same time and all the coincidences seemed to collide.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.