Quotes About Serendipity

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.

Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

Suppose you applied this principle outside bridge? Suppose that coincidence and other chance happenings weren't really as chancy as they looked? Suppose there were individuals with a special aptitude for calling the turns, making the breaks? But that was a pretty obvious idea—nothing to give a person the shiver it had given him.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.

I believe in the theory that one cannot make a good film; it just happens.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.

I don't care who I align with. Things happen naturally.

When you kind of don't care, for some reason, that's when things happen.

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existance is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, witch is free.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Nothing happens by chance.

Falling in love doesn't wait to happen at mutually convenient times.