Anthony de Mello Quotes

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

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

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

You can't decide whom to fall in love with. It just happens.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

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

I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.