Meant To Be Quotes - Page 8

• The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Song, Guitar, Bob

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• George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

  George Foreman

  Mirrors, Rivers, Miracle

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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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• 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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• Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

  Kenneth Koch

  All Time, Written

  Kenneth Koch (2012). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch”, p.542, Knopf

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• Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.

  India.Arie

  Hurt, Children, Sky

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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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• Happiness is meant to be shared.

  Pierre Corneille

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• 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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• A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

  Catherine Booth

  God, Hope, Real

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• People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Idols, People, Kind

  Karen Kingsbury (2014). “Fifteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

  Amanda Palmer

  Artist, Musician, Faces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I believe rules are meant to be broken.

  Robert Evans

  Believe, Broken, I Believe

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• I never meant to be but a dreamer.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dreamer

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Christian, People, Helping

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• Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... ...the future is roses! Roses!

  Thomas Dolby

  Dream, Future, Heart

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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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• And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

  Plato

  Plato, Boys, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

  Teresa of Avila

  Trust In God, Where You Are, Infinite Possibilities

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• Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

  Robin Sharma

  Epic, Thinking, Live For Today

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 29, 2014

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• Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Jobs, Real

  "Oprah: ‘Everybody Has A Calling’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2013.

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• It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

  George Eliot

  Successful, Goal, Too Late

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• I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

  Marian Keyes

  Spiritual, Psychics, Special

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• The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.

  Bill Ayers

  Growing Up, School, Character

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

  Robert Plant

  Stuff

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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