Dalai Lama Quotes

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

The world runs on luck.

Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

I am a great believer in luck.

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.