Meant To Be Quotes - Page 3

• Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

  Danielle Steel

  People, Forever, Passing

  Danielle Steel (2009). “The Gift”, p.91, Random House

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• So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

  John Green

  Want, Had Enough, Ghost

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.

  Shane Claiborne

  World, Sanctuary, Circus

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Enuma Okoro (2010). “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals”, p.327, Zondervan

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• What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

  Meister Eckhart

  Mother, Peace, Son

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• there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Clarity

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• Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.

  Caroline Adams Miller

  Wisdom, Yoga, Healing

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• When your whole being is attracted to someone else's whole being, then I think that is someone you were meant to be connected with at some point.

  Lily Collins

  Thinking, Were Meant To Be, Connected

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• nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Grieving, Great Love, Half

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.330, Macmillan

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• Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Long, Were Meant To Be, Mets

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• Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can acually live on.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Great Love, Hot, Fudge

  Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

  Danielle Steel

  Way, Ifs

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.

  Nalini Singh

  Thinking, Perfection, Together

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.312, Penguin

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• I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

  Rainbow Rowell

  People, Together, Knows

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• I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Museums, Pieces

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• 1. Stress improvement, not perfection (or winning). 2. Don't take yourself too seriously; laugh at yourself and have fun. 3. Set attainable goals; reach them and then set higher ones. 4. Be positive, walk tall, smile often, don't complain or procrastinate. 5. Prepare purposely, but don't overtrain. 6. Remember- Sports is a game and meant to be enjoyable.

  Dick Gould

  Sports, Running, Fun

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• Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.

  William Merritt Chase

  Integrity, Eye, Race

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• I refuse to believe this was my fate. I was not meant to be this. I was never meant to be..." The pain in his eyes tore through her. "This can't be all I was born for.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Believe, Eye

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Heartache is good. Accept it joyously. Allow it, don't repress it. The natural tendency of the mind is to repress anything that is painful. By repressing it you will destroy something that is growing. The heart is meant to be broken. It's purpose is to melt into tears and evaporate. When the heart has evaporated exactly in the same place where the heart was, you come to know the deeper heart.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

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• Some things are not meant to be kept forever... You know you have to stop and let go when things aren't going right, and everything you do is unappreciated. Remember what batman said? 'it is wiser to be alone but happy... than with somebody who does nothing while you're doing everything...'

  Noemie Lenoir

  Letting Go, Forever, Doe

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• In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Flying, Able

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• And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren’t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it’s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Growing Up, Real, Believe

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• No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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• Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. “Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.” “Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, June, Hands

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Victory, Crowns

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.108, Bantam

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