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• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Choices, Joy, Ransom

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• Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

  Janine di Giovanni

  Morning, Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

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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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• 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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• 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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• Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

  Ray Charles

  Paper, Printed

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• There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

  Carl Sagan

  Keeping Secrets, Some Things Are Meant To Be, Known

  "Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science".

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• I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Perspective, Trying, Life Is

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• Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

  Michelle Malone

  Goodbye, Song, Fall

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• There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

  Jay-Z

  Together, Three, Were Meant To Be

  Interview with Oprah, www.oprah.com. October 2009.

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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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• Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Normal, Just Being

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.57, Macmillan

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• If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be.
  Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Men, Live Your Life, Trying

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• Before we can change anything in our life, we have to recognize that this is the way it is meant to be right now. For me, acceptance has become what I call the long sigh of the soul. It's the closed eyes in prayer, perhaps even the quiet tears. It's "all right," as in "All right, You lead, I'll follow." And it's "all right" as in "Everything is going to turn out all right." This is simply part of the journey.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Prayer, Attitude, Eye

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• Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Book, Effectiveness, Broken

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Were Meant To Be, Concentration, Persons

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• Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

  Simon T. Bailey

  People, Special, Genius

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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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• 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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• Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fate, Looks, Were Meant To Be

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• I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

  Ned Vizzini

  Witty, Teacher, Fall

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• Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Hands, Nails

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• Everything okay?" Cam asked, placing his hand on my lower back. Concern pinched his brows. "Yes." I dropped my cell back into my bag. Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.

  J. Lynn

  Cells, Hands, Perfect

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• You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Memories, Were Meant To Be

  Song: My Happy Ending, Album: Under My Skin, 2004

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• Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.

  Abbi Glines

  Heart, Guy, Taught

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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