Quotes About Intention

If someone wanted to be with you, after all, they just made it happen.

How many of the decisions you make each day are because you actually want to do something, and how many are to avoid the consequences of not doing it?

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love.

While most people approach their work with the mindset they just want to get it done, craftspeople are more concerned with who they are becoming and what they are creating whether than how fast they finish it.

Before you build a masterpiece you must design it. It's the same way with life, you know. Too many people go through life living by chance, but when you live by design and know the life you want to create, you are able to create a masterpiece instead of a piece of junk.

As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love. It's much more powerful that way.

Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.

Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.

Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby wee come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart.

affair.—The mind being a designing Cause, only enables it to produce effects in consequence of its design; it will not enable it to be the designing Cause of all its own designs.

No. It's not a game. This is the world . It is not the one we were supposed to have, but it's the one we made. We did this. We did it with open eyes and willing hands. We broke it, and there is no putting it back together. But I'm damned already... so at least I'm going to try.

But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few.

A sword by itself is not evil. A sword can be used to slay an enemy, or release a suffering friend into the darkness. A sword can cut ropes that bind the helpless. A raised sword can be a threat or it can be a symbol of leadership...A weapon, my children, is good or evil depending on the intention of whoever holds it.

signify an intention that I should become any more

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

She watches him, as a cat would watch a mouse.

Jesus, Christianity, and the New Testament documents are birthed directly out of Judaism, and so whatever else we understand about their meaning must be grounded in this reality. Any reading that ignores this is a decontextualized reading that may bear some fruit but cannot be described as sensitive to the intention of the text.

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.

She grabbed his shirt and tore it open, buttons popping off and flying everywhere. She insinuated a knee between his thighs, meaning to apply some provocative friction to his private parts while she undid his pants. But he misread her intention. 'Oh, no, you don't

The universe is run exactly on the lines of a cafeteria. Unless you claim—mentally—what you want, you may sit and wait forever.

la clave  de  la vida  es edificar un equivalente mental de lo que  deseas y eliminar  los  equivalentes de  lo  que   no  quieres.