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Quotes About Coincidences

I suppose we run into accidents and coincidences every day. What matters are the choices we make. If we let an important chance slip by without even trying, then what do we have?
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
Because I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe im moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
~ Jonathan Ames
Enamorarse es amar las coincidencias, y amar, enamorarse de las diferencias. El
~ Jorge Bucay
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results. Or if, on the other hand, events are limited to the combinations of some finite number, then of necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence.
~ Plutarch
coincidences are strange and dangerous things. Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police—who already think you're guilty—will find it for you.
~ Douglas Adams
Your arrival on the planet has caused considerable excitement. It has already been hailed, so I gather, as the third most improbable event in the history of the Universe." "What were the first two?" "Oh, probably just coincidences
~ Douglas Adams
from the tiny spaceport on Easter Island (the name was an entirely meaningless coincidence—in Galacticspeke, easter means small, flat and light-brown) to the Heart of Gold island, which by another meaningless coincidence was called France. One of the side effects of work on the Heart of Gold was a whole string of pretty meaningless coincidences.
~ Douglas Adams
Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
~ Douglas Coupland
I've often noticed that once coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it's some natural law that we haven't found out.
~ Agatha Christie
If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
~ Wayne Dyer
And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand coincidences and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.
~ Richard Bach
Seen from above, our life's this vast field of co-incidents, flowers blossoming from the decisions we've made based on suggestions we've accepted based on our belief that the appearances that surround us are true, or aren't.
~ Richard Bach
I'd ban coincidences, if I were a dictator of fiction. Well, perhaps not entirely. Coincidences would be permitted in the picaresque; that's where they belong. Go on, take them: let
~ Julian Barnes
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.
~ Paul Auster
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
~ Deepak Chopra
There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.
~ James Van Praagh
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~ Isabel Allende
The Sumerian Tablets speak of King Sargon the Elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought up by a royal family. Exodus speaks of Moses being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the Egyptian royal family. The list of such 'coincidences' goes on and on.
~ David Icke
I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.
~ M. Scott Peck
Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous.
~ Albert Einstein
There are no coincidences, only synchronicities: mini miracles placed before us by the Angels with love to inspire the mind and expand the heart.
~ Molly Friedenfeld
Unlikely truths are useful and life is full of them, far more than the very worst of novels, no novel would ever dare give houseroom to the infinite number of chances and coincidences that can occur in a single lifetime, let alone all those that have already occurred and continue to occur. It's quite shameful the way reality imposes no limits on itself.
~ Javier Marías
As verdades inverosímeis prestam-se a isso e a vida está cheia delas, muito mais que o pior romance, nenhum se atreveria a acolher no seu seio todos os acasos e coincidências possíveis, infinitos numa só existência sem falar na soma das que houve e das que ainda decorrem. É sufocante que a realidade não imponha limites.
~ Javier Marías
I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.
~ David Thewlis