Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

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.

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

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.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

I think everything happens at exactly the time it's supposed to.

I don't want to use the word 'instinct,' but when something good happens - something big or good in my life - I have this sensation that it was inevitable. Anything careerwise, 'Lord of the Rings,' 'Rudy,' or getting married. Which is weird, because you don't ever want to be ungrateful for what you have.

I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.