“Accident is veiled necessity.” Marie von Ebner-Echenbach’s insight reminds us that even chance events may be life’s quiet way of steering us where we need to go. These reflections honor serendipity, surprise, and the wisdom hidden in life’s twists. ✨

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. ~ Charles Dickens

I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing. ~ Jasper Johns

Although the painting is accidental in the beginning, I work toward a design that suggests a subject. ~ Maxine Masterfield

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem. ~ Alexander Fleming

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose. ~ Mary Antin

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

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. ~ Asger Jorn

Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. ~ Bob Ross

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Accidents, try to change them—it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. ~ Pablo Picasso

A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident. ~ Philip Crosby