Top 100 Quotes About We Were Meant To Be
#1. Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.
Roberto Bolano
#2. Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .
Michelle Branch
#3. I told you we were meant to be, he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now
Well, now I kiss him.
Elizabeth Scott
#4. 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
#5. Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.
Frances Mayes
#6. Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.
J.A. Redmerski
#7. The only opinion I have is that I could never look someone in the eye and tell them that they didn't love someone that they know they love. It's not my job to judge and it's not a job I'd want. I love people a lot. All kinds. If we were meant to be the same then we wouldn't be human.
Hayley Williams
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. In our dreams we are able to fly ... and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
Madeleine L'Engle
#12. Perform! John's Gospel came along to give us the best of good news. We were never meant to live with emptiness! We were meant to be full; His children were all meant to receive His fullness in one blessing after another!
Beth Moore
#13. 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
#14. With every single kiss - he stole my breath and made it his, holding it captive. And I knew it then - that whatever we were meant to be - for however long time would allow it - it was going to be breathtakingly, heartbreakingly, beautiful.
Jay McLean
#15. Deep inside of us we all know there is someone we were meant to be.
David Kessler
#16. Maybe someday I'll be his and he'll be mine. And space or time won't matter because we were meant to be.
But I won't hold my breath. Life doesn't usually work out the way we hope.
Amber L. Johnson
#17. 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
#18. I can't pretend that I'm just a friend ... 'cause I'm thinkin' maybe we were meant to be.
Janno Gibbs
#19. I went back to my thoughts of Lia. How could I tell her that I knew in my gut from almost the beginning that we were meant to be together? That I had seen myself growing old with her. That a gift I wasn't even sure she really possessed had told me her name long before I ever laid eyes on her.
Mary E. Pearson
#20. We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.
Ronald Reagan
#22. 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
#23. I keep trying to get rid of this thing, but somehow it keeps finding its way back to me. What made you keep it?" "It occurred to me that if I could find the cyborg that fit this foot, it must be a sign we were meant to be together.
Marissa Meyer
#24. To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from - what kind of family brought us into this world,' Josie said softly. 'We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.
Sharon Shinn
#25. 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
#26. We broke so easily. Like it was nothing. Like we were nothing. Does that mean it was never meant to be in the first place? That we were an accident of fate? If we were meant to be, how could we both walk away like that?
Jenny Han
#27. Maybe it's our bodies' way of telling us we were meant to be. Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something.
Lauren Barnholdt
#28. Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?
Sarah Dessen
#30. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.
Paul David Tripp
#31. Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?
Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
Sarah Dessen
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I was never meant to save a soul, and no one was purposed as a project. We were meant to be comrades, mutually passing around whatever we have to offer.
Shannan Martin
#35. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.
Debbie Ford
#36. Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#37. And if we were meant only to labor, why give us minds, why give us desires? Why can we not be as cattle in the field, or chickens in their coops?
Robert Jackson Bennett
#38. The kiss was meaningful. The kisses I had shared with Jayden weren't meaningful. They were full of lies. His kisses made me felt like we weren't meant to be together, but when I kissed Sean it was like we were supposed to be together.
Jessica Madden
#39. We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.
Nora Ephron
#40. Like the sun and the moon, we were always meant to be in the same sky.
Stephanie Dray
#41. I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
Sarah Dessen
#42. What we may view as bad or dark experiences will often be what makes us who we were always meant to be.
Beem Weeks
#43. 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
#44. There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.
Frances Clark
#45. It was a million tiny things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
Tom Hanks
#46. God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.
Billy Graham
#47. I knew that Jessie and I were going to be okay; I knew we were all going to be okay. And I had faith that wherever our individual paths led us would be exactly where we were always meant to be. For a girl that had never believed in anything, this realization meant everything.
Rose Fall
#48. For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.
Reba McEntire
#49. As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
C.S. Lewis
#50. 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
#51. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde
#52. 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
#53. Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.
Terry Tempest Williams
#54. We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.
Lucy Larcom
#55. You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.
Faith Evans
#56. Do you really think we'll ever
"
"I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children.
Diana Gabaldon
#57. 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
#58. Everything could come to a crashing end for us if we were caught, but it didn't matter. Right now, being with him seemed worth whatever consequence could come from it. This was right, like it was meant to be. There was no logical explanation for it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#59. We were never meant to be baby, we just happened
Keri Hilson
#60. Do more than:Stop self-destructing. Save each other. Not have a nervous breakdown or six by twenty five. Decolonize our minds, our hair, our hearts. Transform into the phoenixes we were all meant to be.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
#61. If the past was what we were meant to see ... Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.
R.v.m.
#62. Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were.
And what we remember.
Alice Hoffman
#63. The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.
Julia Margaret Cameron
#64. And I'll admit - I thought it might be best if we kept it all to the page, passed that notebook back and forth until we were ninety. But clearly that wasn't meant to be. And who am I to blow against the wind?
David Levithan
#65. 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
#66. Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.
Craig Groeschel
#67. Women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.
Judith Martin
#68. We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.
Amy Carmichael
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way, that probably no one was right for me and potentially no one was right for anyone, but I also felt, with uncharacteristic sincerity, that we were as right for each other as any two people could manage.
Catherine Lacey
#72. 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
#73. The time to love is now. When we love, we enter into the mystery of eternity. Nothing offered in love is ever lost, for this mortal life is not the whole story. This life is to the next a kind of school, a kind of preparation for the me you were meant to be. That person will go into eternity.
John Ortberg
#74. We weren't meant to be somebody
we were meant to know Somebody
John Piper
#75. To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#76. What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
Elizabeth George
#77. I had every right to be angry, didn't I? We were trying to have a baby - shouldn't we have been prepared to make sacrifices? I would have cut off a limb if it meant I could have had a child. Couldn't he have forgone a weekend in Vegas?
Paula Hawkins
#78. 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
#79. You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.
Stacey T. Hunt
#80. We, as human beings, were not meant to be defeated
Anonymous
#81. It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
Sherman Alexie
#82. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.
Emma Raveling
#83. Good thing I know we're meant to be together, or I'd wonder if you were sent to punish me.
Eve Langlais
#84. 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
#85. I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
Hallie Ephron
#86. We were meant to enjoy life, not be drowned by it.
Donald Miller
#87. People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
Karen Kingsbury
#88. It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.
Evinda Lepins
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Anybody can be a runner ... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.
Bill Rodgers
#92. We were meant to live courageous and bold lives and not lives of mediocrity. However, we have to live our lives actively and on purpose each day to be unstoppable.
Thomas Narofsky
#93. Corinthians 1:3-4 where it states how we are to comfort others in the same manner in which we were comforted. Put another way: the dirt that was meant to bury us can be used as soil to grow another.
Dr. Ronnie W. Goines
#94. A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.
Joseph Sobran
#95. What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?
Marie Lu
#96. If all the days and nights in the world were to cease to be, I still hold that we were meant to meet and to love and to know the pain of violent disillusion.
Syrie James
#97. That was when I realized we weren't born to be
slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master of another. We were all meant to be free, and somewhere there were good people helping to heal this broken world.
Jay Grewal
#98. There were eleven of us.
Each more different than the next.
All with the same mindset.
Things weren't the way they were meant to be.
It was our job to make things right.
We were the soldiers of Halla.
It was time for us to take it back.
D.J. MacHale
#99. Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.
Elaine A. Cannon
#100. We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.
Goldie Hawn
