Quotes About Serendipity

Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more? I'll tell you what I see, Peter. A clear path. More than that. A true path.

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

Of course, a story always begins with such a coincidence.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

I find that a great part of the information I have acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way

Sometimes you are in just the right place.

On fortune's cap we are not the very button ...Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours?...Faith, her privates we. SHAKESPEARE

Qué son los siglos, comparados a ese instante en que dos seres se adivinan y se acercan?

More science happens through lucky accidents than you'd believe (...).

More science happens through lucky accidents than you'd believe, Radiant Lopen," Rushu said. "It makes me wonder how many amazing innovations we've passed up because we were searching for something else, and didn't realize what we'd done.

Friendship often develops out of a meeting at which nobody had expected any such miracle to happen. - Kurt Wallander

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

It has been frequently said that many of the world's greatest inventions were due to accident. In a sense this is true. But the accident was prepared for by previous hard thinking. It would never have occurred had not this thinking taken place.

There is always a place for chance in things.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

My book experiences on board of the frigate proved an example of a fact which every book-lover must have experienced before me, namely, that though public libraries have an imposing air, and doubtless contain invaluable volumes, yet, somehow, the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound in much.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.