Meant To Be Quotes - Page 14

• I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Children, Blood, Ideas

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Men, Majority

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• My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Thinking, Ironic, Irony

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• Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

  Sarah Dessen

  Broken, Imperfect, Truth About Forever

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

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• Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Together, Were Meant To Be

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• This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Were Meant To Be

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I still believe it was.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Believe, Way, Stills

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• We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.

  Melody Beattie

  Strong, Mistake, Believe

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• Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Reality

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• Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.

  Dharma Mittra

  Brother, Yoga, Animal

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• Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Adversity, Joy, Special

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• You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

  Robin McKinley

  Reading, Writing, Giving

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• Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

  Napoleon Hill

  Humorous, Positive Thinking, Men

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• And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Beautiful, Empowering

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• Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

  A. J. Kitt

  Success, Sports, Fun

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• Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.

  Roger Angell

  Beautiful, Baseball, Distance

  Roger Angell (2013). “Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.

  Steve Pavlina

  Adventure, Life Is, Daring

  Steve Pavlina (2008). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.116, Hay House, Inc

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• The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

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• A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

  Rumer Godden

  Gratitude, Cheer, Garden

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Disappointment, Struggle

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• After all the stops and starts, we keep coming back to these two hearts. Two angels rescued from the fall, and after all that we've been through, it all comes down to me and you. I guess it's meant to be, forever, you and me, after all.

  Peter Cetera

  Fall, Angel, Heart

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• The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

  George Orwell

  War, 1984 Movie, East Asia

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• I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

  Rob Lee

  Sports, Heart, Boys

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• Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Games, Play

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