Serendipity Quotes

“How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.”

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”

“Love will find you when you least expect it.”

“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.”

“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.”

“I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.”

“I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.”

“Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.”

“It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.”

“Sometimes you just try things and they happen.”

“Sometimes things just happen naturally.”

“Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.”