Quotes About Intention

And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;

Algunos creen q para ser amigos basta con querer, como si para estar sanos bastara con desear buena salud

But what matters for questions of virtue and vice is whether your acts are not merely voluntary but also chosen.

And to the truth of this testimony is borne by what takes place in communities: because the law-givers make the individual members good men by habituation, and this is the intention certainly of every law-giver, and all who do not effect it well fail of their intent; and herein consists the difference between a good Constitution and a bad.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do

if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible.

On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

When Luke and I are called outside, and you two are kept imprisoned inside - doesn't it begin to seem - and his voice is very quiet - doesn't it begin to seem that the intention is, somehow, to separate us?

She should not have been doing the cooking! said Mrs. Wright strongly. Well of course there is the root of our trouble. Certainly she should not have been doing the cooking if her intention was to destroy all of us with poison. We would have been blindly unselfish to encourage her to cook under such circumstances.

there is magic, but you have to be the magician. you have to make the magic happen.

Most importantly, the very inception of the treatment itself necessarily induces a change in the patient's conscious attitude to his illness...that he does not listen carefully enough to what he obsessional ideas are saying to him, or does not grasp the real intention of his obsessional impulse.

The interfering intention in the tongue slip may stand in a significant relation to the intention interfered with, and then the former contains a contradiction of the latter, correcting or supplementing it. Or, to take a less intelligible and more interesting case, the interfering intention has nothing to do with the intention interfered with.

Certain inadequacies in our psychic performance and certain actions performed apparently unintentionally prove, when methods of psychoanalytical investigation are applied to them, to be well motivated and determined by factors of which the conscious mind is unaware.

Any work, whatever its genre or perspective, can only be fairly judged by the goals it sets for itself.

But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it.

Basta!' Seguí. Quería que se fuera; verdaderamente lo quería, era sincera. Sincera porque no creí que lo hiciera. Era como un espantoso psicodrama en el que uno juega a la verdad.

To will is to engage myself to persevere in my will.

There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give our attention, we destroy some evil in ourselves. If one pays attention with this intention, fifteen minutes of attention is worth a lot of good works.

The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

Las mismas palabras [por ejemplo, un hombre dice a su mujer, te amo] pueden ser triviales o extraordinarias según la forma en que se digan. Y esa forma depende de la profundidad de la región en el ser de un hombre de donde procedan, sin que la voluntad pueda hacer nada. Y, por un maravilloso acuerdo, alcanzan la misma región en quien las escucha. De tal modo, el que escucha puede discernir, si tiene alguna capacidad de discernimiento, cuál es el valor de las palabras.

Every act should be considered from the point of view not of its object but of its impulsion. The question is not 'What is the aim?' It is 'What is the origin?

Emily and Harry McKee made Sam blush by the cheery openness with which they informed him that they intended to have only three children, but to have those with celerity and to have them perfect. (They apparently possessed more control of Providence than was understood by such an innocent as Sam.)