H. G. Wells
Writer
"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."
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Were Meant To Be
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Jacob Peterson
Professional Athlete
"The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon."
Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you."
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"Your life was meant to be epic. Stand up for your best today."
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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?"
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"Life was meant to be lived."
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"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince."
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"You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning."
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"A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed."
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"The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not."
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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."
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"I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer."
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"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."
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"The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with."
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"This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me."
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