Quotes About Serendipity

Instead of someday meeting the woman he was meant to spend the rest of his life with, maybe he'd simply met her again.

Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.

It wasn't that Mira had met her in some previous life. It was that she was meeting her in this one-and isn't that rare! Why is it so hard to meet in this life? But the deeper question was: What was one supposed to do with such people? Fuck them, love them, or leave them alone? Yet they seemed to call out to be acted upon.

I can't begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

The first time you succeed it is chance

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.

In the search for a strong and permanent glue, Spencer Silver at 3M in Minneapolis found a weak and temporary adhesive instead. This was in 1968. Nobody could think of a use for it, until five years later a colleague named Art Fry remembered it when irritated by his place-markers falling out of a hymn-book while singing in a church choir. He went back to Silver and asked to apply the glue to small sheets of paper. The only paper lying around was bright yellow. The Post-it note was born.

Luck only holds out for so long