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Serendipity is a fortunate accident

• Serendipity: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.  Oxford Dictionary
• Sara: It’s such a nice sounding word for what it means: a fortunate accident. From the movie Serendipity (2001)
• Synchronicity,  Luck,  Co-incidence,  Grace  

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Serendipity is the luck of finding something not sought for

• 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
• I define serendipity as the art of making an unsought finding. Pek van Andel
• Serendipity: The faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for. Merriam Webster
• 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
• Serendipity is when you find things you weren’t looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult. Erin McKean
• 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 and Gilbert W. Merk
• Webster’s Dictionary defines “serendipity” as the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable things not sought for.” It represents a type of “accidental sagacity; the faculty of making fortunate discoveries of things you were not looking for. James J. Lynch
• Serendipity is the faculty of finding things we did not know we were looking for. Glauco Ortolano
• Luck

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There is an element of serendipity to most discoveries…

• There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery. Jeff Bezos
• Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching. Siddhartha Mukherjee
• A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. Emanuel Ax
• Discovery

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… including scientific ones

• It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity. Albert Hofmann
• Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances. Julie Bishop
• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but “That’s funny.” Isaac Asimov
• Science

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Serendipity rewards those who are on the lookout for something

• You don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings … serendipitously. John Barth
• 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

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Serendipity rewards those with the right attitude

• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. Earl Nightingale
• Attitude

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Serendipity rewards those who are prepared and have their eyes open

• All things are ready if our minds be so. William Shakespeare
• In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
• What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open. Jose Manuel Barroso
• Serendipity always rewards the prepared. Katori Hall
• Preparation

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Serendipity rewards those with a sense of adventure and fresh discovery

• The principle of spontaneity and serendipity is the ability to experience life with a sense of adventure, excitement, and fresh rediscovery instead of trying to find a serious side to things that have no serious side. Stephen Covey
• Adventure,  Discovery

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Serendipity rewards those open to surprise and unexpected twists in the road

• 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 Golden Gelman
• 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. Condoleeza Rice
• Openness

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Serendipity is wonderful when it happens but the truth is most of our rewards in life are due to effort

• 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
• Effort

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Serendipity is a sign of divine presence

• Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits. Nancy Long
• God

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Treat your life as the serendipitous miracle it is

• If there are no miracles then we need to find another word for the existence of life – the existence of you and me – on earth. Call it a gift from spirit (God or god in whatever form works for you), serendipity, happenstance or plain good fortune. I invite you to look at your life as if it were a miracle. To treat your life in any other way seems to me to be a terrible waste of your unique presence on this planet. Robert White
• Life is a miracle

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Embrace serendipity if you want to be creative

• The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank. Steven Johnson
• Creativity

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• Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter. Julius Comroe, Jr.
• Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one — all red. Tobi Tobias
• There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking. David Coleman

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