Quotes About Serendipity

The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

You meet the one you meet amongst thousands and tens of thousands of people, amidst thousands and tens of thousands of years, in the boundless wilderness of time, not a step sooner, not a step later. You chance upon each other, not saying much, only asking softly, "Oh, you are here, also?

Acaso todo en ella era fruto del desorden de las ocasiones?

The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine",

Meeting your soulmate has a certain amount of meant-to-be-ness to it, AND it requires a big dose of make-it-happen-ness.

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.

Dunn's Law: Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

In 1978, I was in Paris - I was in someone's car and listening to the radio - and on comes Paco de Lucia. I'd never heard of this chap, and I just thought, 'I have to meet him.' And I was very lucky; I found him very quickly. Crazily enough, he happened to be in Paris!

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Life has a funny way of letting things fall into place when you least expect it.

If it wasn't for Boz, my life would've changed. Meeting the Porcaro brothers and getting that Boz Scaggs gig were two life-changing events for me. It all fell into place after that.

'Glee' found me. I didn't really go looking for it.

You can't plan the best day because it just happens. But if I had to plan it, then I would go away for long drive for sure.

Luck is something you find, or you go for it.