Quotes About Serendipity

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

I want to say that wonderful ideas can come from anywhere. Sometimes you make a mistake, or break something, or lose a hat, and the next thing you know, you get a great idea.

That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just happened to need someone to work on its payroll software.

Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.

Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Our meeting each other could not possibly be as random as two leaves from two trees being blown together.

This was not chance that they met twice, my mother would tell me whenever she recounted this story. It was fate.

There is not enough luck in the world. That night I got somebody's share.

siempre por casualidad

Maybe you can go through your whole life and never meet them, and think love is all these other things, but if you do meet them, God help you! Because then: ka-blam! You're screwed.

Her head jerked around. It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at the precise moment, you'd think it would never happen. She stood looking at a painting with a hand to her cheek, then watched the cat making its way across the sofa toward the bird. Life, it's so unlikely, she said, then turned to me again. It's so much better than we think, isn't it?

It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at the precise right moment, you'd think it would never happen.

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

But we were in the same place at the same time in our lives, and for that alone I was inexpressibly buoyant and a few hundred years' worth of grateful.

Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks. The traffic signal that said walk the second you got there, that happened to every person in the course of a day.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate. - Jacob Jankowski, Water For Elephants

How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.

I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

Whenever something great happens, you're always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? I asked him. He looked at me and then said, You're here, aren't you?