Serendipity Quotes

• Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Destiny, Discovery

  "Silver Linings: Meditations on Finding Joy and Beauty in Unexpected Places". Book by Mina Parker, 1998.

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• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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• The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

  Nancy Thayer

  Inspirational, Life, Uplifting

  Nancy Thayer (2010). “Beachcombers: A Novel”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  David Levithan

  Together, Purpose, Pieces

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.25, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

  Rita Gelman

  Inspirational, Keys, Joy

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• Travel light and trust in serendipity.

  Mike Brown

  Light, Travel Light

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• Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

  Judith Orloff

  Flow, Surprise, Surrender

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• 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

  Pain, Struggle, Healing

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• Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.

  Tom Hanks

  Destiny, Choices, Have Faith

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• 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

  Adventure, Loving Life, Thinking

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• It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Events

  Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

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• Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

  Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

  Inspirational, Daughter, Farmers

  "What Does That Mean? : Exploring Mind, Meaning, and Mysteries". Book by Eldon Taylor (p. 9), 2010.

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• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Writing

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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• ...maximize the serendipity around you.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Luck

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.204, Random House

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• There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

  Jeff Bezos

  Discovery, Involved

  "dot.conqueror" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2002.

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• Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

  Katori Hall

  Rewards, Prepared

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• Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Sometimes, Intention

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• 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 Erikson

  Inspirational Life, Play, Risk

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• Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

  John Cusack

  Absence

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Wind, Fabric

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

  Pico Iyer

  Guides, Tour Guides, Caprice

  Pico Iyer (2010). “Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East”, p.34, Vintage

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• 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

  Real, Book, Library

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• What possibilities exist here? What is presenting itself to me IN THIS MOMENT that I can use? In a very real sense, it's meditation in motion, the practical application of an esoteric practice. And it relies on the acceptance of serendipity. Serendipity, the effect of accidentally discovering something fortunate

  Tom Bergeron

  Real, Acceptance, Practice

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• Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

  Horace Walpole

  Silly, Discovery, Three

  Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.

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• You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

  Jeremy Piven

  Passion, Writing, Men

  "Fictional character: Dean Kansky". "Serendipity", www.imdb.com. September 13, 2001.

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