Quotes About Serendipity

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.

Sometimes the universe tries very hard to send you a message.

My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident.

He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.

Character + Chance = Success

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it's just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.

It [success] is really by mistake.

Every time a new house was built, a bucket of peach stones would be found, and even children on their way to school knew that finding one meant luck, whatever the outcome: love forgotten, love gone wrong, love despite all odds, love ever after, love after all this time.

this occurred only once in a person's life, and then only if he was lucky. It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don't know where you are. You are falling, you're in a house you don't recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life

Some dates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.

Where there were lilacs there would be luck.

Lightening, like love, is never ruled by logic. Accidents happen, and they always will.

Love happens in such a way, Maureen told me. It walks up to you, and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.

There are some things you have only once in a lifetime, and then only if you're lucky.

but fate is fate and it can often be what you least expect it to be.

Statistics, Jenny had learned early on, never mattered when they applied to you, not if you were the one in a thousand who'd been struck by lightning

When they reached the lobby and the doors opened I knew they were meant to be there, the four of them, alone.

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing and point you toward some good poetry while I'm at it. It's what I do.

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with willpower, or wisdom, or pluck. It's just a matter of where you're standing. Two inches to the right, and the bus hits you. If your office is on the ninety-second floor instead of the ninetieth, you don't make it out in time.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.