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.

Sage, undoubtedly, but I confess to preferring my mottoes to be a little more on the pithy side. Working my way through the above put me in mind of a labrynthine 'compliment' from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to wit, "That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."