Quotes About Serendipity

There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

WE HAVE A WHOLE DEPARTMENT THAT LOOKS AFTER HAPPY COINCIDENCES

i got lucky

Because we would have. Another time, another place. Every step of my life was bringing me to you." He turned her, kissed her forehead. "Even the ones on the darkest road.

Two souls don't find each other by simple accident.

Sometimes your hole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. -Lover Awakened

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.

He came into her life wearing a Syracuse ball cap and blue jeans that had holes in them.

you have enough monkeys randomly striking keyboard keys (they have recently traded in their typewriters for PCs), one of them will eventually type Hamlet

Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance

Every once in a while with Twitter, you find something that breaks through the bilge and recrimination. Or sometimes, something finds you. One night, 'The Mechanics of History' found me.

If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

Chance created the situation

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.