Quotes About We Are Meant To Be

#1. I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.

Ally Condie

#2. We will never be more than we are meant to be!

Sorin Cerin

#3. True love involves a willingness to change, to become more like the ones we love. Love is dynamic, not static. God may accept us just as we are - but he isn't going to leave us there. God wants to move us on, to help us become the people we are meant to be.

Alister E. McGrath

#4. I know you're meant for me. I know you're the other half of my soul. We are meant to be together. - Avery Adams

Kindle Alexander

#5. When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings.

Leslie Ludy

#6. We have to let go of our plans if we are to become the person we are meant to be.

Joseph Campbell

#7. Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us. They can try like
hell to put it out, but as long as we know in our minds who we are meant to be,
they will never stand a chance.

Andy Biersack

#8. We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least
call it a mechanospiritual sense
we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

Natalie Angier

#9. It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

Laozi

#10. She opens her palm and she's going to take my hand. She's supposed to take my hand. We're meant to walk through this world together. I see it in her eyes. We are meant to be. I'm certain of this in a way I'm not certain about anything else.

But she doesn't take my hand. She walks on.

Nicola Yoon

#11. We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want to be women who live their lives on purpose.

Stasi Eldredge

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

Hannah Whitall Smith

#13. We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#14. This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.

Melody Beattie

#15. If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.

T.F. Hodge

#16. Daniel?"
"Yes."
"Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?"
"No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

Ann Brashares

#17. If we aren't living our lives doing what we are meant to be doing, and what we were essentially created to bring to the planet, the universe is going to let us know. Nothing will be working in our favor, nothing will ever seem to go right, and we will exist in a miserable robotic lifestyle.

J. Goldenberg

#18. The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.

Garrison Keillor

#19. There is nobody else on earth like you and me. Let us be who we are meant to be.-RVM

R.v.m.

#20. There is nothing, surely, which exhorts us more than this Sermon on the Mount to be what we are meant to be, and to live as we are meant to live; to be like Christ by being a complete contrast to everyone who does not belong to Christ.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#21. However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse ... We are meant to be hungry.

Lionel Shriver

#22. We've come so far together, we have so far to go, but we are made for each other. We are meant to be.

E.L. James

#23. You meeting me in such an unexpected way is a sign from God that we are meant to be together!

Avijeet Das

#24. It's not stalking when we are meant to be together. I can't help it that I imprinted on him when I was six.

Jana Aston

#25. Making sure that each of us ends up with the people we are meant to be with is important to the Lord, so He takes His time making sure that the circumstances are right.

DeVon Franklin

#26. I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

Sebastian Faulks

#27. We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

Jane Fonda

#28. Real Life - the real life of joy we are meant to be living - begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#29. RVM's Thought for the Day -
There is nobody else on earth like You and Me. Let us be who we are meant to be.

R.v.m.

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

Esther Dalseno

#33. The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

Anne Lamott

#34. There's nothing fated in our stars. No meant-to-be in any of it. We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe. And that's okay. These seven billion billion atoms are good with that.

Rick Yancey

#35. We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Oswald Chambers

#36. Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

Wilfred Owen

#37. The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

Richard Leider

#38. I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

Gil Scott-Heron

#39. Life is not a straight line. It's a spiderweb that twists and tangles. We crawl along our strands until we touch the people who are meant to be in our lives. The strands can knot, as mine did with Lily's, but they don't break, and the unexpected paths are often the best ones.

Stephanie Knipper

#40. We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

John Connolly

#41. The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

Hannah Arendt

#42. We are inclined to think that everything that happens is to be turned into useful teaching. In actual fact, it is to be turned into something even better than teaching, namely, character. The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something.

Oswald Chambers

#43. What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

Obert Skye

#44. I wasn't thinking of marriage, just commitment.
I wasn't thinking of forever, just reveling in now.
We don't know yet how long we're meant to be-
there are so many obstacles down the road.
But there is also possibility; the ring marks the realm of possibility.

David Levithan

#45. There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful ... We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.

Amy Carmichael

#46. To live fully, in these transitory lives on this fragile earth, in such a way that we somehow participate in the glory of God - that would be flourishing. And that is what we are meant to do.

Andy Crouch

#47. You and I were never meant to be together, but we are. Our pairing is not unlike two electrons ignoring natural laws in order to orbit one another. Life now defies reason - quirky but beautiful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#48. We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.

Aleksandra Layland

#49. Perhaps our triumphs are not even the point. Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#50. The thing that makes us who we are, that goes with us from life to life, it never changes. We always know the people that have surrounded us deep down, whether they are meant to be in our lives at that moment of time or not.

Donna Augustine

#51. The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

Jeff Miller

#52. ...life wasn't meant to be easy. The difficult things we go through are the things that make us stronger.

Komal Kant

#53. There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

David Levithan

#54. Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to be seen by anyone. In a similar way, rowing practices are our sketchbooks, where we prepared our raceday masterpiece.

Brad Alan Lewis

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

Edward Rutherfurd

#56. That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

Oscar Wilde

#57. Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

Danielle Steel

#58. We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood - heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.

Deborah Tannen

#59. We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

Desmond Tutu

#60. Maybe it's okay to no longer be the person we thought we were meant to be. Maybe it's okay to just be who we are now and accept that.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#61. We're affected by other peoples' lovelessness only to the extent to which we judge them for it. Otherwise we are invulnerable to the ego, as the Son of God is meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

#62. I believe that there is a perfect plan set before each of us, and when we follow that plan things work out exactly as they should. For example, many would not believe we were meant to be a part of each other's paths, yet here we are

Rachelle Dekker

#63. We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Charlotte Mason

#64. Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!

Betty Dodson

#65. The fact is, I don't think we can ever go back. There are things in life that are just not meant to be. Sometimes you just have to let go. In fact, I'm asking you to let go,

Belle Ami

#66. I don't believe we are accidents in the world, and I don't believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle.

Donald Miller

#67. Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

Judith Light

#68. We aren't some casual fuck, and we never were. Not from the first night. Not from the first time I laid eyes on you. You were built for me. I denied it as long as I could, but we were meant to be together. You are the sea under my sky. We're bound at the horizon.

C.D. Reiss

#69. I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

Daniel Handler

#70. Life is supposed to be a risk. It's written everywhere around us. We are meant to take chances. We are meant to explode and shatter and spiral. Even if we break, we'll come back to a still point. We are made that way, just another natural element, if we remember to stay natural.

Katie Kacvinsky

#71. In our dreams we are able to fly ... and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

Madeleine L'Engle

#72. The things that are meant to be are the things we can't control, the things we don't cause, the things that happen regardless of who or what we are. Like sunsets and snow-fall and natural disasters. I've never believed hardship or suffering was meant to be.

Amy Harmon

#73. I love green juices - the ones that include lots of actual greens and don't include too much apple. Because those are just meant to be yummy, and we all know things that are too yummy aren't the best for us, unfortunately.

Christine Teigen

#74. As Christians we're called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ's family and be members of his body.

Rick Warren

#75. Our dreams are meant to come true, you know. What would be the purpose of dreaming if we could not fulfill our dreams?

Gautama Chopra

#76. There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Shashi Tharoor

#77. We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

Paul David Tripp

#78. But let us be sure of something. We are not sheep. This government is ours, and it is meant to serve our best interests. And if it has grown into something it shouldn't be, and shucked off the rules of the Constitution it was based on, then it is our responsibility to rein it back in.

Gary Hansen

#79. And when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive

Audre Lorde

#80. You were always meant to be mine." His eyes burned, his chest so painful that it felt as if his heart had burst. "Whether it's for a year or a century, it doesn't diminish who and what we are together.

Nalini Singh

#81. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache ... The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.

Brene Brown

#82. There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

Neil Tennant

#83. I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured.

L.M. Montgomery

#84. Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

Rani Mukerji

#85. We're getting by but getting by, was never our destiny. We were meant to be profoundly effective. Why have we accepted average? Are the few effects most of us see and experience all Christianity has to offer? Is this it? All we can expect? If so, someone out there needs to feel sorry for us.

Beth Moore

#86. What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

Elizabeth George

#87. We want to make an impact on the world, but we end up making or selling playthings that are developed to keep us distracted and designed to deconstruct. We have turned the activities that were meant to be the stuff of life into mere means of subsisting in it.

Susan Neiman

#88. Often, breaking integrity means repeatedly doing things we do not love with people we do not care for. Isn't life meant to be a passionate love affair with our work, our faith, and those we are blessed to know, care for, and serve?

Brendon Burchard

#89. Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

Colin Quinn

#90. Having your cake and eating it too is how Life was meant to be. Everything is possible. And the things we want the most are not only possible, they're highly probable.

Debbianne DeRose

#91. We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#92. we were never meant to be what we are or where we are, we are looking for an escape, some music from the sun, the girl we never found. we are betting on the miracle again there before the purple mountains as the horses parade past so much more beautiful than our lives.

Charles Bukowski

#93. We are in love and meant to be together.

Emily Giffin

#94. Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

Paul Davies

#95. Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

Mitchell Burgess

#96. Ninety percent of the population spends time imagining their future and forgetting that now is where we live and breathe. The ten percent who live in the present are the ones who have the stories to tell, the ones who live life the way it's meant to be lived.

Everly Drummond

#97. Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there""Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

Jim Rohn

#98. We should not expect everyone to be tough and not feel anything when offended. No one is meant to hate and be hated - we are all meant to love and be loved.

Auliq Ice

#99. You are the missing piece to make me human. I feel it, coursing through me. I have no doubts. You were made for me, we were meant to be one.

Ashlan Thomas

#100. We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

Elisabeth Elliot