Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

History throws you what it throws you, and you never know what’s coming.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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

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.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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

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.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

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.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

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.'

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

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

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.