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Quotes About Intention

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Every action or inaction has a recompense or a consequence. Yes! thus, do what you have to do when you ought to do it and never do what you don't have to do when you shouldn't do it. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
God is never concerned with taking you to where you merely wish to be. Yes, he is only/ever concerned with taking you to where you ought to be.
~ Emeasoba George
Note: whoever that longs to be remembered or celebrated by the posterity (all future generations) ahead should always have the posterity in mind. In other words, he or she should always have the best interest of the posterity at heart (in whatever he or she does or says). ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
True love ought to be more in actions and less in words. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
You shouldn't for any reason begin anything that you can't accomplish. But, until you're determined you will hardly accomplish whatever you intend to begin or whatever that you've started already.
~ Emeasoba George
I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
~ Emil Cioran
Dac? mi-aÅŸ asculta întâia pornire, toat? ziua aÅŸ scrie scrisori cu injurii ÅŸi scrisori de adio.
~ Emil Cioran
Resolve to make every day count. Be a woman of action. Treat each day as precious.
~ Emilie Barnes
Beauty must be more than an accident.
~ balfour arthur james ii
I disowned, as you remember, any intention of providing you with a philosophical system—not because I despise philosophical systems or those who labor to construct them, but in part because I have none to recommend, and in part because it seems to me doubtful whether at our present stage of development a satisfactory system is possible.
~ balfour arthur james v
Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
~ Banksy
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
~ Barack Obama
E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Or I can set a little altar, in the world or in my heart. I can stop what I am doing long enough to see where I am, who I am there with, and how awesome the place is.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
NOT EVERYONE is able to walk, but most people can, which makes walking one of the most easily available spiritual practices of all. All it takes is the decision to walk with some awareness, both of who you are and what you are doing. Where you are going is not as important, however counterintuitive that may seem.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Yet even this turned out to be helpful, since recognizing my jerkdom is how I remember that is not who I want to be.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
In your own life, use the words "I am creating," "I am doing," "I am manifesting," "I am intending," and "I am bringing about." Forget "I am trying.
~ Barbara Marciniak
For many millennia the people of Earth have been continuously creating their experience by default and neglect. Thoughts and feelings, words and ideas are in a constant search to attract their likenesses. To produce effective and desirable results, thoughts must be clearly focused and directed toward a desired goal. The realization of this knowledge is of key importance in the initiation of humankind into a higher state of awareness.
~ Barbara Marciniak
It has been our intention to expand your ideas of who your gods are because those gods will be returning to Earth. That is why the planet is going through such great turmoil. As you learn to hold the frequencies coming from the creative cosmic rays, you will be prepared to meet these gods.
~ Barbara Marciniak
Resistance is clear evidence of high self-esteem. It shows that on the deepest level, you intend to survive. And trust me, successful people know all about resistance, they've just developed ways to get around it (like hiring trainers and managers and secretaries and having deadlines to keep them moving).
~ Barbara Sher
You're obviously capable of achieving a lot, but ability can never take the place of desire. Don't be tempted to do something just because you can. That's what got you off course in the first place.
~ Barbara Sher