Quotes About Intention

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

A goal is the basic unit of life design.

It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life.

I don't want to mess up my life. You only get one shot. I don't want to let my fans or anybody else down. So, I always think before I act. And as long as I do that, I'll be okay.

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

You can superfocus sometimes, but also space out when you least mean to. You can radiate confidence and also feel as insecure as a cat in a kennel. You can perform at the highest level, feeling incompetent as you do so. You can be loved by many, but feel as if no one really likes you. You can absolutely, totally, intend to do something, then forget to do it. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but feel as if you can't accomplish a thing.

Having ADD makes life paradoxical. You can superfocus sometimes, but also space out when you least mean to. You can radiate confidence and also feel as insecure as a cat in a kennel. You can perform at the highest level, feeling incompetent as you do so. You can be loved by many, but feel as if no one really likes you. You can absolutely, totally, intend to do something, then forget to do it. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but feel as if you can't accomplish a thing.

Eldredge has just said gives a pretty good short description of ADD: You don't mean to do the things you do do, and you don't do the things you mean to do.

If you do this, what do you want to happen? and If you do this, what do you think will happen?

I am now convinced that it is better to work from science into literature than to try the reverse, though many have done so with distinction. To understand the scientific culture deeply and, even more, to express the emotions that attend scientific exploration require that the writer inhabit science for a substantial part of his life, intent upon making important discoveries and placing them within the canon.

Thinking that you are good can make you bad. Talking about positive behavior can encourage negative behavior. Laozi is clearly on to something when he warns us that consciously trying to be righteous will, in fact, turn us into insufferable hypocrites and that anyone striving to attain virtue is destined to fail.

From the beginning, God intended for men and women to shine with dignity in their role as caretakers of the rest of creation.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

An unconscious-mistake stays a mistake anyhow; conversely, a conscious-mistake, means not only a mistake; it falls under crime as well.

Nothing to do is itself a great doing.

Spying on any subject means one does not trust or its intention to cause the damage. It does not build the best relationship.

The beauty of the inner intention becomes authentic when that appears by the beauty of the character and conversation as a fragrance and sweetness.

You may realize how to execute your skill and when and where, and to whom? - If you place the flowers and sweets for the houseflies, it results in a health risk - If you situate the same, for the honeybees, it becomes the health benefits It depends on you to feed and build; however, who and what?

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.