Quotes About Serendipity

At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.

It's really hard to know when you're lucky and when you're smart.

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us.

When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

Love just happens, you know.

Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.

Love is not something you plan, it just happens.

We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billion years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

There is a phenomenon called Trail Magic, known and spoken of with reverence by everyone who hikes the trail, which holds that often when things look darkest some little piece of serendipity comes along to put you back on a heavenly plane.

we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.

I suppose all our lives must be at the end of a long chain of improbable coincidences

Mientras hacía este libro aprendí sobre todo dos cosas. La primera es que no existe nada, ni una sola cosa, que no sea increíble e interesante cuando te detienes a examinarla... La otra cosa que aprendí es que tenemos una suerte bárbara de estar aquí.

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

Even in my bad luck I have always been lucky.

When they jumped down on the tracks, stretched their limbs, picked flowers, and took a little run, they all had the feeling that the place had just emerged only thanks to the stop, and that the swampy meadow with its knolls, the wide river, with a beautiful house and a church on the high bank opposite, would not be there had it not been for the accident that had taken place.