Quotes About Serendipity

Or as the Nobel laureate Max Born wrote, "Chance is a more fundamental conception than causality."3

According to the laws of chance, if you look around enough, you are bound to find something interesting.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

Everything is randomly connected.

Consciousness is the core of humanity. It can be a curse or it can be a cure. Only humanity can decide how to break the curse and be the cure.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

Uma biblioteca não é só um lugar de ordem e caos; também é o reino do acaso. mesmo depois de lhes atribuirmos uma prateleira e um número, os livros retêm uma mobilidade própria. Entregues a si mesmos, formam grupos inesperados; seguem regras secretas de semelhança, genealogias que nenhuma crónica regista, interesses e temas comuns.

A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have been given a shelf and a number, retain a mobility of their own.

the world is really so small that everyone must of necessity meet everyone else

Due pezzi di puzzle. Fatti l'uno per l'altro. Da qualche parte del cielo un vecchio Signore, in quell'istante, li aveva finalmente ritrovati. - Diavolo! Lo dicevo Io che non potevano essere scomparsi.

We like to think that we plan what happens to us, but it is chance, surely, that lies behind so many of the great events of our lives -- the meeting with the person with whom we are destined to spend the rest of our days, the receiving of a piece of advice whic influences our choice of career, the spotting of a particular house for sale; all of these may be put down to pur chance, and yet they govern how our lives work out and how happy--or unhappy--we were going to be.

For each of us, she thought, there is out completeness in another. Whether we find it, or it finds us, or it eludes all finding is a matter of moral luck.

I think that may just be coincidence," Ulf said. "Sometimes we stumble over the truth. We think we find it, but it finds us.

Everything in life is luck.

Whatever will be will be.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE way happenstance governs so much of human existence. Never underestimate how being in a certain place at a certain time changes the entire trajectory of things for you. Never underestimate the way we are all hostages to life's random rhythms.

Fate is bound up in the music of chance.

Lloyd What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together

One can never scheme for meeting the right person. It is always by chance, an accident, but you know it's the special one because suddenly life throbs with colour and opportunity and meaning. Your deepest needs are fulfilled. You have everything. You're in heaven.

Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

No one is in your life by mistake.