Sheila Heti Quotes

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

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

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

I don't believe in coincidence.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

I believe in the lessons of life. Some things are mapped out for us. By that I don't mean that you wait for things to happen, but it's interesting the way our lives are like a jigsaw where sometimes the pieces don't fit - and other times they do.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

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

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

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

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.