Quotes About Serendipity

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. Fate is inexorable.

Great riches come to many men by chance.

Okur kitap arar ama, kitab?n da okuru buldu?unu ben çok gördüm. Aç?klanabilir bir ?ey söylemiyorum belki, ama "rastlant?lar"?n ço?u, aç?klayamad???m?z için rastlant? görünmez mi?

Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

If you look and listen for it, you'll see and hear synchronistic clues from the Universe that go past everyone else but have special meaning for you, guiding you to make the best of things. Look for synchronistic "winks" from the Universe.

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'

Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

I think, a lot of times in Hollywood, the right idea comes along at the right time, and it becomes in retrospect, 'Wow, why didn't I think of that?'

It was by accident I got into wrestling. Somebody didn't show up, and I just filled in.

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

If heaven ever wishes to grant me a boon, it will be a total effacing of the results of a mere chance which fixed my eye on a certain stray piece of shelf-paper.

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.

Synchronicity is basically coincidences with a meaning. That synchronicity is in our lives to help us get in touch with our loved ones and also refine our intuition.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever.