Quotes About Intention

Jesus doesn't rob you of being YOU. You don't somehow become less than yourself because Jesus' presence is larger in you. It's just the opposite; the more you surrender to Him, the more you become who the Father always intended you to be.

Not that I had any intention of accosting him to propose any practical agreement. That would have demanded on Laura's part a degree of devotion, of understanding, a detached view of the purely animal act of love, such as could not be expected of so young a woman who was so subject conventions of comportment in a society that had always shown itself incapable of differentiating between love and sexuality.

Il n'est pas possible d'être aussi con, murmura-t-elle lorsque je lui fis part de mon intention de rejoindre la Pologne, coûte que coûte. Je ne comprends même pas qu'on ne t'ait pas pris dans l'armée, con comme tu es.

Asceticism means that a man resolves to live as a man.

People who walk slow ain't got nowhere to go.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

But she knew that, despite their best intentions, people reached a point beyond which they could not return but could only hope for a safe landing.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

It is to be present to the way things are, including our feelings about the way things are. This practice can help us clarify the next step that will take us in the direction we say we want to go.

How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.

Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

If I was wicked I meant to be wicked to some purpose.

I may not be able to do much that I want to do but I won't do another thing that I don't want to do.

IfI wanted to eat an apple, and someone punched me in the stomach, taking away my appetite, then it was this punch that I originally wanted

Because I want you to know that your're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And I thought I should introduce myself. I mean, we should get to know each other. Since you're the girl I intend to marry. ~Mark Gianni

Richard was jealous. He was jealous and he'd followed her, intending to kiss the hell out of her to show her.

I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. Don't know what you want so can't advise you how to get it.

She has driven into town to get the mail. He had no intention of taking you anywhere but to your bed. He is a dog," he growled, and then glared at Dave and added, "Although that seems to me to be an insult to Bailey and her kind. She would never behave in so unsavory a manner.

Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love