Quotes About Coincidence

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

I remember Mr. Bender's comment about us only being here for two weeks, too. It's true. How could Mother and Father have known? After I spent over a year in a coma, how could they have predicted exactly when I would wake up and then move to California precisely at that time? Was it only coincidence? Or did they decide when I would wake up? Why would they keep me in a coma for so long? Why would they steal a year and a half of my life? What kind of parents are they?

Chance is providence in a cloak.

When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life's moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.

How many events added up to a coincidence? How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?

Families always seem to me like this weird accident." "What do you mean?" Opal asked. "I don't know," said Erica. She gestured with both hands, fingers splayed. "It's almost as if a bunch of people who have absolutely no reason to be together all drew straws and somehow wound up on the same commune.

According to Jung, synchronicity is an unpredictable moment of meaningful coincidence

Synchronicity? Or bullshit?

Life is a gift of God, of the God of Coincidence!

We have a poor mathematical, as well as a poor intuitive understanding of the nature of coincidence.

But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another

There is however the concept which Ian Fleming allowed "Goldfinger" to propound: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.

There is no perfection but in chance

Randomness and luck are related, but there is a useful distinction between the two. You can think of randomness as operating at the level of a system and luck operating at the level of the individual.

Barlow writes, "Associations discovered must be genuine ones and not due to chance. The mind that seizes on any random coincidence and sees it as a sign of an important permanent association will not guess right and is not conceded to be intelligent, though it may be at times entertaining.

A coincidence is just a couple of things happening simultaneously.

What was that expression? It's when you're not looking for something that you find it. well she wasn't about to put that on the love match letterhead, even if it was true, she had a business to run after all.

Coincidence means two incidents occurring simultaneously. Doesn't mean just random, but meaningful connections, unfolding of the divinity. Let more meaningful incidents be synchronized, recognize them and get MickeyMized!

As ill-luck would have it.

Las cosas podían haber sucedido de cualquier otra manera y, sin embargo, sucedieron así.

You see, whenever something unexpected or unthought of falls onto our path, it's always a stepping stone in a journey to a "place" that we have been thinking about, because in time and space, as you well know, there are no accidents

El verdadero amor siempre es predestinado. El mismo fue ordenado desde antes de la creación del tiempo. Entre las coincidencias, es la que más preparación ha tenido. Y el destino, por supuesto, no es otra cosa que un término secular para la voluntad de Dios, y coincidencia de su gracia.

Just like a murderer jumps out of nowhere in an alley, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

By chance we met, by choice we become friend