Willa Cather Quotes

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?

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

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Yes, it is extremely lucky to be doing what I'm doing, and I wouldn't change any of it for the world.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

I think I'm the luckiest guy on earth.

I just feel lucky to be able to do stuff I enjoy.

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

My life is so random. Certain things I can't even explain. There's a thing about being lucky and... I feel like certain things are just, like, in your cards. I'm just walking the path that's already set.

Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

The world runs on luck.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

There's always a chance. Anything can happen.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.