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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Sometimes, Intention

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• There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

  Jason Silva

  Unexpected, Circumstances, Plans

  "We Can All Be the Authors of Our Own Lives" by Jason Silva, bigthink.com.

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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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• 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

  Knowing, Might, Corners

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• Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

  John Cusack

  Absence

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• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

  Epictetus

  Life, Stupid, Silly

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

  Erin McKean

  Difficult, Findings

  "Search Patterns : Design for Discovery". Book by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender (p. 131), 2010.

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• Travel light and trust in serendipity.

  Mike Brown

  Light, Travel Light

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• One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Order, Mind, Bears

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• Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Innovation, Knows

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• Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

  Adrian Bejan

  Discovery, Creative, Quests

  "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics". Book by Adrian Bejan and Gilbert W. Merkx, 2007.

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• 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

  Moss, Looks, Okay

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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