Quotes About Serendipity

A lot of nice accidents have happened to me.

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Fortune passes everywhere.

That girl! She was like a touch of destiny

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get Dy on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.

When we met, I never thought in a million years that Will Smith and I would be together.

My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

I think that's a universal theme, you know: we don't know who we're going to meet tomorrow. And that person might change your life entirely. There's always that possibility, and while you're not necessarily actively seeking it, you have that desire deep down.

That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary—a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

None of us is responsible for the wonderful people we don't meet; we're only lucky when we do meet them.

Not everyone glimpses paradise during their lifetime. Only the lucky ones.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.