Quotes About Serendipity

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Being together, like being able to see certain stars only with your peripheral vision, isn't something you can create. It's just something that happens to you.

Magic happens when and where it wants to.

You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible?

I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just take a nice silly walk in Central Park with.

It's not every day I learn I'm someone's destiny.

If coincidence can give, it can take.

This was, after all, how some of the best things happened in life—by the mysterious working of synchronicity, incredible coincidence.

He thought: so this is what it feels like to love. No logic to it - he barely knew her. But there it was just the same. He'd just met the woman he'd known, somehow, since before he was born. The measure of every dream he'd never dared indulge.

I say luck is when an opportunoty comes along, and you're prepared for it.

People plan their reading? Takes all kinds… Books just find me. They converge upon me like flocks of benevolent vultures. They follow me home, wagging their tails. I'm pretty sure they breed in the dark, too, like mushrooms. When I finish a book, I pick up whatever looks most appealing from the tottering piles at hand.

I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'

Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.

I just think I got lucky. Every step of the way, I've gotten lucky with everything I've gotten to do and be a part of.

There is somewhere someone who will feel lucky knowing you. And if lucky enough, loving you.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Bay followed and put a hand on her arm. 'But Miss Baird, Charlotte, am I right to feel lucky that I have met you?' Charlotte smiled. 'I think we both might be lucky, don't you?

Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable.

One of the ironies of a conference dedicated to all things digital and virtual is that the best ways to connect with people are surprisingly old-school. Social media tools can improve the odds of a serendipitous encounter at SXSW, but old-fashioned hustle, palm-pressing and - above all - creativity go a long way.