Meant To Be Quotes - Page 19

• The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Reality, Fire, Terrible

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Music, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.

  James Arthur Ray

  Teacher, Positivity, Were Meant To Be

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• I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Atheist, Crazy

  "Newt talks faith at Texas church" by Kendra Marr, www.politico.com. March 27, 2011.

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• Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

  Meister Eckhart

  Grieving, Soul, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be

  Joel Brown

  Success, Wall, Giving

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2017

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• Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Motivational, Wise, Inspiration

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• I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Inspiration, Son

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• The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Broken

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• We were never meant to be baby, we just happened

  Keri Hilson

  Song, Baby, Happened

  Song: Knocks You Down, Album: In a Perfect World..., 2009

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• Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Jobs, Book

  Interview with Lee Carter, www.hintmag.com.

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• It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Country, Trying, Together

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• I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

  T. Harv Eker

  Cake, Secret, Looks

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• What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Destiny, Ideas, People

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• The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They sound like the squawking ducks in a pond. The mind is not meant to be spoken. The mind is mostly waves of thoughts and sensations from many sources. The mind is meant to know the truth. Know your own mind and use it to speak the truth.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Ducks, Mind

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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