“Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.”
David Levithan book Every Day
Source: Every Day
“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
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Michael Pollan book The Botany of Desire
Introduction “The Human Bumblebee” (p. xxi)
The Botany of Desire (2001)
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.
“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host
“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.
“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.
“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”
Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
“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"
