Quotes About Serendipity

My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.

Siento que toda mi vida ha sido un azar. Momentos fortuitos de pérdida y conexión. En cambio, esta es la primera vez que siento que es el destino.

They say what's for you won't go past you...

the world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might see them. Once, twice. Perhaps never again.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

However, to the amazement of their neighbors, the Klutzes never got seriously hurt. As clumsy as they were, the Klutzes were twice that lucky!

Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened.

El destino nos hace malas o buenas pasadas. Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, es como el agua en las redes del pescador. Se las echa al mar y se hinchan; se las saca y se deshinchan. Así es la vida.

A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.

It doesn't matter how anything happens.

I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joined the world.

Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate.

I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity.

You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

I don't believe in coincidences. Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?

There's weird shit about; take it for luck.' 'I'm beginning to think there's no such thing.' 'My point precisely.

But the longer you live, the more you realize there are a lot of flukish things in this world.

I actually think there are lots of good matches for each person, and they cross our paths all the time, but we're so wedded to the idea of love at first sight that we can miss the really great people who don't come with a thunderbolt attached.

My father always says one thing leads to another. It certainly does. I started out to buy a friend a birthday present, and I end up trying to get a factory to go with it....

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.