Quotes About Serendipity

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

Don't find love, let it find you. It's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just do.

You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

I think if you meet the right person in life and you fall in love, that is a miracle. My husband saw me on the subway. That is a miracle!

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

He loved a girl once; for no particular reason, just a lot of little ones thrown together. Isn't that what love is, anyway? The sum of a million intangibles that all come together in just the right way at just the right time? Like conception. Or the universe.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

In a universe, on a continent, in a country, in a state, in a county, on a river, in a small yellow boat,' I said. 'That's what Mary used to say to explain the odds of us meeting. And you have to be born in roughly the same period. Those are the odds. And probably you need to speak the same language.'-- Cobb

Osim toga, svet je mali. Ponekad se stvari sklope na najsla?i na?in. Drugi put se sklope na manje slatke na?ine, ili se ne sklope uopšte.

Le plus souvent notre meilleur côté ne dépend pas de nous, il est confié à l'initiative d'un inconnu qui vient le réveiller par hasard.

What is luck but something made to run out.

I was born with a ring of luck at my neck. Luck is its own kind of manacle, perhaps.

Some people fall out of the third floor of a building and end up with nothing more than a black-and-blue mark on their backside. While others take one wrong step on their way down the stairs and wind up with a cast.

Sometimes things happen for a reason...

You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.

Had Lucky gotten lucky after all?

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.