Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

No acts are random or wasted.

Everything always happens for a reason.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Everything happens for a reason.

I believe in fate.

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

I always say there are no coincidences.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

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

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

There is a reason for everything.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.