Life Serendipity Quotes

#1. The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

Mark Helprin

#2. Maybe she needed more library time in her life. More hushed time among rows of books waiting to be accidently discovered, rather than deliberately seeking one title or another, clicking to order, and moving on. Serendipity.

Karen Doornebos

#3. There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

Laura Lippman

#4. Headaches you could generally shift with a couple of well-aimed Nurofen and some strong coffee. Heartaches were considerably more tricky to handle.

Carole Matthews

#5. Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere

George Carlin

#6. Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. Practice like good musician; draw every day.

Sergei Bongart

#8. I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

Kristy Swanson

#9. There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile.

Nikki Rowe

#10. Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

Joan Erickson

#11. With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

Robert Vaughn

#12. I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Pete Wentz

#13. All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#14. Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

William Osler

#15. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

Emily Giffin

#16. It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life.

Bradley Somer

#17. A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are

Tove Jansson

#18. Infidelity doesn't have to be the most devastating that can happen in a marriage.

Carole Matthews

#19. Everyone feels depressed, angry or frustrated at times; it's a crossroads not a dead end.

Sam Owen

#20. Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.

Steve Leveen

#21. I wasnt looking for anything when I found you & it somehow made me question what I wanted, was i ready for love? I don't think anyone is ever ready, but when someone makes you feel alive again it's kind of worth the risk ...

Nikki Rowe

#22. Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Karen Finerman

#23. I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

Twiggy

#24. I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Mark Twain

#25. I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

Sally Rand

#26. I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.

Gabriel Byrne

#27. The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

Corinne Maier

#28. I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

Lance Burton

#29. The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.

Michael Denton

#30. In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

#31. I felt like I was suffocating, like my future and all my happiness were gone. I've never felt that before, Ava. I can't let you go.

Nicole Gulla

#32. Life sucks. It's all random bullshit that adds up to nothing but chaos. Serendipity: accidentally finding something wonderful while not looking for it. A few get lucky. The rest of us fight for what's left over.

Adriana Law

#33. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. Comedy, as we said, is an imitation of people of a lower sort, though not in respect to every vice; rather, what is ridiculous is part of what is ugly.

Aristotle.

#35. I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going to have to sacrifice that to bring life into the world. But the more I can hold off on that, the happier I'll be. It's scary for me.

Michelle Rodriguez

#36. Freelancing requires such strict adherence to toadyism, to sycophancy, to the grubbiest, lowliest submissions. It is an on-spec life and it is full of what can only be described as insane serendipity (or serendipitous insanity).

Richard Morgan

#37. Of course, that's how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it's happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you?

Tom Xavier

#38. It said if you were nervous about committing yourself to marriage and it was because you doubted yourself and whether you would make a good partner, then that was only natural and you should go ahead. It also said that if you doubted that the other person was right for you, then you should stop it.

Carole Matthews

#39. Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to
look at it or think about it, doesn't mean it's not there, that it doesn't
affect you and the choices you make in your life.

Rachel Gibson

#40. How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.

Rick Scott

#41. I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

Cybill Shepherd

#42. It's funny how things don't matter any more when it's too late.

Carole Matthews

#43. ...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster; you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.

Kevin Wilson

#44. Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

Rufus Wainwright