Quotes About Serendipity

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Not until later did he realise he had never before seen her anywhere, yet it was somehow as if he had been awaiting her for a long time

When you're open, a hitchhiker—a "randomer," as my daughter Eve calls them—can become an angel.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.

With luck, it might even snow for us.

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]

Ci eravamo incontrati perché doveva succedere, e anche se non fosse stato quel giorno, prima o poi ci saremmo sicuramente incontrati da qualche altra parte.

All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far...it's as though they were all ingeniously programmed from the start of bringing me here.

What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

I don't want to do that," Aomame said. "What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus." "Destiny. A chance encounter." "More or less," Aomame said, taking a sip of wine. "That's when I'll open up

The best way for a firm to be lucky is to make its own luck.

love, real love, doesn't choose where it wants to go; it just happens. There's no rhyme or reason to it very often, and certainly it defies logic. But it happens and that's that Fait accompli.

The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.

When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.

Coincidence is the exception, not the rule.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

Cómo soporta uno que lo único que puede llegar a conocer sea lo que llega por casualidad a sus ojos, a sus oídos? ¿Cómo se puede respirar sin el aire universal que brota de los libros?

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

Little pieces of grace were everywhere if you looked.