Top 100 Quotes About Were Meant To Be
#1. In God's kingdom, humans get to reflect God at last into the world, in the way they were meant to. They become more fully what humans were meant to be. That is how God becomes king.
N. T. Wright
#2. May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#3. 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
#4. Indeed, if the Framers intended unenumerated rights to be protected without a bill of rights, how can we imagine that those rights were meant to be any less secure with a bill of rights.
Roger Pilon
#5. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Elie Wiesel
#6. Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
H.G.Wells
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Go home to Ravka, Nina. Be free, as you were meant to be. Be a warrior, as you always have been. Just save some mercy for my people. There has to be a Fjerda worth saving. Promise me
Leigh Bardugo
#11. The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.
Quinn Loftis
#12. I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.
Melissa Marr
#13. 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
#14. Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.
Christopher Plummer
#15. You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#16. It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.
L.J.Smith
#18. Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Paul Coelho
#19. When your whole being is attracted to someone else's whole being, then I think that is someone you were meant to be connected with at some point.
Lily Collins
#20. People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them."
...
"People were meant to be as happy as you make them.
Jimmy Buffett
#21. 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
#22. People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.
S.H. Kolee
#23. Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.
Not to get to know one another,
not to get close enough to damage the heart
made older by each new encounter.
Rod McKuen
#24. The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be.
John O'Donohue
#25. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear.
Sherman Alexie
#26. True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.
Harold S. Kushner
#27. You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.
Jessica Taylor
#28. Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?
Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
Sarah Dessen
#29. 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
#30. Our marriages were meant to be alive, not dead. Is your marriage more like romance or roadkill?
Beth Moore
#31. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only thing that can.
A.G. Howard
#33. Horehound sticks are meant to be shared with friends, don't you think?' She was dead wrong about that: Horehound sticks were meant to be gobbled down in solitary gluttony, and preferably in a locked room, but I didn't dare say so.
Alan Bradley
#34. Socrates smile was devastating. It's been my honor to introduce you to the woman you were meant to be.
Red Phoenix
#35. Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.
Bryant McGill
#36. If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
Oscar Wilde
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.
Elaine A. Cannon
#40. Change. It could happen in the blink of an eye and it wasn't always bad. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it showed you where you were meant to be all along.
Shey Stahl
#41. Some people come into your life, not to stay, but to bring you to the path you were meant to be on. Ashe
Serena Pettus
#42. 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
#43. Large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.
James Madison
#44. You deserve to be the person you were meant to be.
Atticus Poetry
#45. It's time to be the person you were meant to be, Cat. You don't just have to make decisions and stand by them now. You have to live with them.
Amanda Bouchet
#46. Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can.
A.G. Howard
#47. I always thought that soul mates were meant to be forever but I learned that soul mates are only Meant To Be.
Kate McGahan
#48. Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.
Heath L. Buckmaster
#49. But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#50. Life doesn't give You the people you want, It gives you The people you need: To love you, To hate you, To make you, To break you, And to make you the person you Were meant to be.
Walt Whitman
#51. 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
#52. Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.
Mark Romanek
#53. 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
#54. For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?
James Madison
#56. 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
#57. Sunken fleets of streaming gold are superior to all other surrounding vessels upon the raging waters, for if submerged riches were meant to be and eternally remain hidden to the naked eye, I would wish it to be so, as long as reaching hands are placed as pure
Aaron Ozee
#58. She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is,' and she sounded proud. In that moment I forgot my hunger and I forgot my fear.
Neil Gaiman
#59. Your soul's desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart.
Debbie Ford
#60. 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
#61. ..do you know that the first time I ever held you, I looked into your eyes and lost my heart? The same way I'm sure every father does when he holds his child for the first time. I knew then and there-right there on that very spot-that you were meant to be my little girl...
Holly Kennedy
#62. 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
#63. I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'
Brandon Flowers
#64. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
George Eliot
#69. Ask yourself: Does the job touch my heart and feed my soul? You will never be what you were meant to be if you aren't having fun.
Suzy Welch
#70. Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart's desire.
Leon Brown
#71. Some guys were meant to be heroes. I was never one of them, but fuck it, I could learn.
Lisa Henry
#72. You were meant to be my balance Aline.
You are the only person in the world who might rule with me, who might keep my powers in check
Leigh Bardugo
#74. 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
#75. Kazim-Richards - there's only one. You type it into Google and nothing else comes up. My first names were meant to be Colin Kazim but the registry office got it wrong. There is no-one with that name - not even my mum and dad - just me - I love it!
Colin Kazim-Richards
#76. Out of the blue, someone can just walk into your life, and make you realize why things never worked out with anyone else. And this is the person you were meant to be with ... forever.
Jose N. Harris
#77. I can't pretend that I'm just a friend ... 'cause I'm thinkin' maybe we were meant to be.
Janno Gibbs
#78. True meditation is a state of profound and deep peace that comes when the mind is calm and silent, yet totally alert. True meditation takes you to a higher state of awareness and enables you to fulfill who you were meant to be.
Stewart Osbourne
#79. 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
#80. Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
Kate Morton
#81. Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#82. Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!
Denis Waitley
#83. I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.
Leos Carax
#84. 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
#85. I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.
Christina Hendricks
#86. There was a lot about the Babylonians, how their religion was the original, the most authentic, how their gods were symbols for another reality, that if one could rediscover their rituals and use them as they were meant to be used, one could gain enlightenment.
Jonathan Aycliffe
#87. I've had people following me home or standing outside my house. It's strange. I just don't think people were meant to be worshipped or idolised.
Matthew Morrison
#88. Why is power a gift? Because power is for flourishing. When power is used well, people and the whole cosmos come more alive to what they were meant to be. And flourishing is the test of power.
Andy Crouch
#89. Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.
Joey McIntyre
#90. 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
#91. Like all living things, you were created for unlimited growth and possibilities. Keep growing. Keep changing. Be everything you were meant to be.
Eleanor Brownn
#92. 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
#93. This is me. This is what I want. I could trade it all today, for this. Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever stepped into a place and just known that you were meant to be there?
K.A. Tucker
#94. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George Sheehan
#95. Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. When they reached the lobby and the doors opened I knew they were meant to be there, the four of them, alone.
Alice Sebold
#97. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde
#98. 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
#99. Sometimes, you have to go through a bunch of life lessons before God unites you with the person you were meant to be with.
Shannon L. Alder
#100. Isaiah and I were meant to be friends and now I'm losing my only friend.
Katie McGarry
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