Quotes About Serendipity

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

Relationships are never chance events.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

Early reading is serendipitous, and rightly so. Gloriously so. Libraries favor serendipity, invite it; the roaming along a shelf, eyeing an unfamiliar name, taking this down, then that--oh, who's this? Never heard of her--give her a go? That is where, and how, you learn affinity and rejection. You find out what you like by exploring what you do not.

Sometimes the wrong fairytale turns out to be just right!

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Both of them sat silent on the moss-covered rock in the slant of sunlight through the old pines and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.

They both sat silent on the moss-covered rock, in the slant of sunlight through the old pines, and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.

Trust chance, trust silence, trust mystery

he walked away understanding, (...) how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made... on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do.

Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.

what his uneducated father had been trying so hard to teach him all along: of the terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result.

With some people, the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.

I am a firm believer in serendipity - all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.