107 Quotes About Serendipity

Some lives were saved by accident; some, by an accident.

People, places, events – they have a way of curiously being arranged for you, for a reason. And you often can and will find that reason only in hindsight. Sometimes they are more evident, sometimes they happen in a paradoxical way – which is, you may not want something but what’s happening is Life’s way of getting you to where you must arrive, of making you who you must be.

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

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.

You shouldn't marry someone you thought you could live with, you should marry someone you thought you couldn't live without.

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

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

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.

All this is what it means to regret.