Quotes About Serendipity

Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity

Luck is what happens when preparation meet opportunity

My friends all tell me I was born with a horseshoe up my butt.

You have to catch the breaks.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

I enjoy shopping at local shops which I get to know by chance.

It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

Comedy chose me.

Growing up, I've always felt I was God's favoured child. Circumstances to help me just happen.

I'm one of the most superstitious people I know. There are these two battling parts of me, one is very rational and intellectual, and the other part of me, at my core, I believe in magic in a certain way, and serendipity.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

That's what has always been so surprising for The Seekers - when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing together.

There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel." (p. 343)

The things that make our lives are so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we're meant to love, barely find our way in the woods, barely survive catastrophe every day.

The things that make our lives are so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we're meant to love, barely find our way in the woods, barely survive catastrophe every day.

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'.