Gerald Massey Quotes

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

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.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

In 1978, I was in Paris - I was in someone's car and listening to the radio - and on comes Paco de Lucia. I'd never heard of this chap, and I just thought, 'I have to meet him.' And I was very lucky; I found him very quickly. Crazily enough, he happened to be in Paris!

I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.

I'm always interested in the moment when lives somehow accidentally cross. I think sometimes those accidental meetings can be small miracles; they can really change one's perspective on that moment and on life.

With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.

Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.