I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them. ~ Rachel Ray

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. ~ Leo Tolstoy

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ~ Thomas A. Edison

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever. ~ Lao Tzu

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike. ~ Alex Osborn

As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider. ~ Kazuaki Tanahashi

Misfortunes one can endure: they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults ah! There is the sting of life. ~ Oscar Wilde

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. ~ Max Beckmann

Everything has a purpose. There are no freaks, misfits or accidents. There are only misunderstandings and mysteries not yet revealed to mortal man. ~ Marlo Morgan

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law. ~ Grace Murray Hopper