"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."
- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
- Tony Robbins

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."
- Roy D. Chapin Jr.

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
- Lucille Ball

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It is said in so many ways - you will be lucky when your hard work has prepared you to grap opportunities when they present themselves.

What will you meet/experience on the path unwinding? Will your luck affect it?

From 'Circle of Life' by Elton John:

In the circle of life
It's the wheel of fortune,
It's a leap of faith,
It's the band of hope.
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding,
In the circle, the circle of life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ZnCT14nRc

Is it luck or God's will/plan that you were just not aware of?

"From an earthly perspective, things may seem to happen at random, but throughout the whole of Scripture, it is clear that God is in control of all of His creation and is somehow able to take the random acts of natural law, the free will of both good and evil men, and the wicked intent of demons and combine them all to accomplish His good and perfect will."
- http://www.gotquestions.org/luck.html

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
– Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."
- Garrison Keillor

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Luck is complicated. Sometimes not getting what you want could be a stroke of luck.

Working and waiting for the day your ship'll come in.......

From the song '9 to 5' by Dolly Parton:

Workin' 9 to 5,
What a way to make a livin',
Barely gettin' by,
It's all takin' and no givin'.
They just use your mind
And they never give you credit,
It's enough to drive you crazy
If you let it,
9 to 5, for service and devotion,
You would think that I
Would deserve a fat promotion,
Want to move ahead
But the boss won't seem to let me,
I swear sometimes that man is out to get me.

They let you dream
Just to watch 'em shatter,
You're just a step
On the boss-man's ladder,
But you got dreams
He'll never take away.
You're in the same boat
With a lotta your friends,
Waitin' for the day your ship'll come in
'N' the tide's gonna turn,
And it's all gonna roll your way.

https://youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4

"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."
- Robert Doisneau

"While the attitude that luck is the primary difference between success and failure would be a good excuse to easily accept the defeatist position in life, it is one that is untrue. Many, many successful people met what appeared to be insurmountable challenges on their way to achieve success."
- Byron Pulsifer, The Smoothest Way Is Full of Challenges

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."
- Channing Pollock

"People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck."
- Grenville Kleiser

"It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned."
– Frank A. Clark

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson

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Many believe good luck increases with hard work. In other words, the harder you work, the luckier you should expect to be.

Is love different?

"I guess it's half timing and the other half's luck,
Wherever you are, whenever it's right,
You'll come out of nowhere and into my life,
And somehow I know that it'll all turn out
...
I just haven't met you yet."
- From 'Haven't Met You Yet' by Michael Bublé

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJmKkU5POA