Quotes About Serendipity

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to.

What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife.

Grandma pointed her fork at me. "Just watch. Fate will throw you two together. One day you'll just run right into him and boom! True love.

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly quickly was sort of confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned; everything was just perfect. It was this beautiful woman just sort of literally tripped and fell into my life; I fell into her life.

Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.

You know what the truth is? You don't find Bill Murray. Bill Murray finds you.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

It is hard to predict what I want in a partner. It's more about what the universe brings to me, and what I feel is right.

Although the role of serendipity is familiar, what's not so well appreciated is how different serendipity is from luck. Serendipity is not just an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally, as my dictionary defines it. Serendipitous discoveries are always made by people in a particular frame of mind, people who are focused and alert because they're searching for something. They just happen to find something else.

Chance favors the connected mind.

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

They were part of the same pattern. In his guts, Shan was sure they had to meet.

You never know which people will affect your life.

Meaning must be found through saying "yes" to the divine accidents on the dance floor.