Quotes About Serendipity

But there is one thing that I've learned about luck. It rears its head as an opportunity, not a gift, and what seems to separate the lucky from the unlucky is the willingness to take Lady Luck for a ride.

Pasteur, L. 1854. Chance favours only the prepared mind.

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence. And yet who among us hasn't been at its mercy?

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

Sometimes synchronicity works.

Funny story, but the coincidence of our last names ending in the same letter is what led two such disparate types as Connla and myself to meet and team up in the first place. It's a long story involving being sorted onto the same team for a pub quiz.

There was a smart, sunny girl out there right now somewhere, a Ray on a trajectory that would cross his path, a girl who made sense with him. I was just as glad not to know her this very minute, but she existed, and he would run into her, and with time I would accept it.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

This country seems able to do more by accident than any other country can do on purpose.—Employee at Bechtel-McCone B-29 modification plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943

He was the brother of the one that [I'd photographed]. I was just walking in the mall, ran into him, didn't know him from Adam—how many are the chances of that happening? Astronomical." When I read this, I stared at it. Was this a slip of the tongue by a serial killer who severed heads, who'd admitted being in Miami when the Walsh child was reported lost?

Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas.

Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas, dicen en México).

El azar era una explicación que sólo tranquilizaba a los idiotas.

Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.

Though soulmates aren't looking for you, they will find you.

Your soulmate will be the stranger you recognize.

I never wanted to be a part of the industry, as I had no knowledge about it. I am one of those rare and really lucky people for whom the calling identified me and not the other way around.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I got into real estate very much by accident.

There are times when you look at your life and realise how lucky you've been.