Meant To Be Quotes - Page 8

• Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Night, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

  Ishmael Reed

  Poetry, Musician, Able

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• The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.

  Larry Crabb

  Believe, Emotional, Roots

  Larry Crabb (2005). “Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Earth, Life Is

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• Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.

  Robert Thurman

  God, Religious, Goal

  Robert Thurman (1999). “Inner Revolution”, p.54, Penguin

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• Some Laws were meant to be broken.

  Cassandra Clare

  Law, Broken, Were Meant To Be

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Scorpia”, p.43, Penguin

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• Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see that as suffocating rather than charming." Her words are sharp, but her voice is sweet, like honey on the edge of a blade, and meant to be cutting. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sweet, Cutting, Men

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• So let me see if I got everything straight … This … means that we are somehow meant to be husband and wife. But if I refuse you, you spend the rest of your life impotent and alone? But I, on the other hand, am free to live my life however I see fit?” He nodded. “It really sucks to be you, doesn’t it?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Husband, Mean, Hands

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.252, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Way, Were Meant To Be, Coincidence

  Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #1: Raven's Gate”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Secret, Never Forget, Known

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.73, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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• 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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• Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.

  Laini Taylor

  Hands, Drawing, Dancing

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• Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.

  Lora Leigh

  Would Be, Gone, Might

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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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• 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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• 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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• The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

  David Levithan

  Falling In Love, Silly, Heart

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I believe there’s someone out there for everyone,” he {Isaac} says, “and when you meet that person, sometimes you know right away they are who you were meant to be with. And sometimes, years can go by before you let yourself believe that the feeling you’ve had about a person for so long, is actually love. And what a waste that is.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Believe, Years, Long

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