“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”

— Bob Ross

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American painter, art instructor, and television host 1942–1995

Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host

Bob Ross: Beauty Is Everywhere. Collection 1: Ep. 8 "Wintertime Blues"; The Joy of Painting Season 20: Episode 3 Bob Ross: Winter in Pastel.

“By many a happy accident.”

Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet

No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 2. Compare: "A happy accident", Madame de Staël, L'Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.

“I think it a very happy accident.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.

“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Variant: No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

Mary Wollstonecraft book A Vindication of the Rights of Men

A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”

Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline

Source: The Lords of Discipline

“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 19.

“To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?”

Jin Shengtan (1610–1661) Chinese writer

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“Evolution is all about processes that almost never happen. Every birth in every lineage is a potential speciation event, but speciation almost never happens, not once in a million births. Mutation in DNA almost never happens — not once in a trillion copings — but evolution depends on it. Take the set of infrequent accidents — things that almost never happen — and sort them into the happy accidents, the neutral accidents, and the fatal accidents; amplify the effects of the happy accidents — which happens automatically when you have replication and competition — and you get evolution.”

Daniel Dennett book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Breaking the Spell (2006)

“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”

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