Quotes About Serendipity

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

Love shows up, and you had nothing to do with it.

When two people are meant to be together—to enjoy love and life together, to help each other, or to learn something—love is just there. Where it comes from and why is one of the great mysteries of life. You don't and can't make love happen; it just happens.

you can't choose love, love chooses you.

You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

EVERYTHING happens for a REASON. You are ALWAYS at the RIGHT time and the RIGHT place, doing the RIGHT thing.

Sometimes you just need to be open to the universe's alternate plans for you.

Coincidence was a messenger sent by truth.

I reckon, Billy, that there's such a thing as serendipity, that if you are meant to move on, you will. And I believe that if you imagine, and keep on imagining, a better life for your family, then events will conspire to present the opportunity to you. And when that time comes, you will make your decision, one way or another." "Bit of a gamble, though, ain't it?" "So is staying in one spot." Epilogue

coincidence was a shadow cast by truth.

It's funny how things work out, isn't it? I mean, it's like dominoes—you touch one and then the others start to go, and sometimes they fall in the right direction and one person knows another and it all opens up like a flower.

a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Luck is a factor that a lot of people underestimate.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly.

coincidence is not just only a road to facts but also a call to ponder

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

I'm trying to leave more of my calendar open for the spontaneous things. A lot of fun stuff that happened in previous years were things that were like, 'Hey are you available next week?' I wasn't really open unless it was planned months in advance. I'm excited to play it by ear and let a lot of stuff happen as it happens.