Were Meant To Be Quotes - Page 6

• We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.

  Melody Beattie

  Strong, Mistake, Believe

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• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

  Samuel Barber

  Music, Football, Destiny

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

  Marchette Chute

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Want, Accomplish, Meant To Be

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jul 26, 2013

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• I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

  Richard Branson

  Heart, Games, Sweat

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• Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Resistance, Violence, Resentment

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• Why travel - because the world was meant to be experienced, not imagined.

  Chris Guillebeau

  World, Meant To Be

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• My first motion capture game was with Sony - NBA: The Life. It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!

  Nolan North

  Basketball, Sports, Real

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• It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

  May Sarton

  Looks, Knack, Meant To Be Alone

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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• "Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

  Barbara Neely

  Justice, Criminals, Found

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• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  Owen Arthur

  Politician, Satisfied, Journalist

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• I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

  Misty Copeland

  Forever, Ballet, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

  Joey McIntyre

  Philosophy, Wish, Way

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• Knowledge was meant to be shared.

  Louis L'Amour

  Knowledge, Meant To Be

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Jubal Sackett”, p.184, Bantam

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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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• Your life was meant to be epic. Stand up for your best today.

  Robin Sharma

  Epic, Today, Meant To Be

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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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• 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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• Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Mother, Distance, Ems

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2012). “A White Heron and Other Stories”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Life was meant to be happy.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Simple Life, Meant To Be

  Neale Donald Walsch (2009). “The Conversations with God Companion: The Essential Tool for Individual and Group Study”, p.298, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Two, Three

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.8, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Ironic, Might, Ruins

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• Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Example, Portions

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Trying, Want, Youth

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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