Quotes About Intention

Love is the law, love under will.

Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior.

You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).

To do something, you have to VALUE something. It is a definitional issue. Because, to DO something, is to ACT OUT the proposition that the thing you are doing, the thing you are AIMING at, let's say, is PREFERABLE to the thing you have. And preferable means that you will do it.

Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good. Now, your trajectory is heavenward. That

He who contrives, defeats his purpose;

Dedica tus esfuerzos a hacer cosas con significado, no aquello que más te convenga.

if you cannot understand why someone did ?something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.

Perhaps it is better to conceptualize it this way: Everyone needs a concrete, specific goal—an ambition, and a purpose—to limit chaos and make intelligible sense of his or her life. But all such concrete goals can and should be subordinated to what might be considered a meta-goal, which is a way of approaching and formulating goals themselves. The meta-goal could be "live in truth.

What you aim at, determines what you see.

We need to talk about the nature of the present and our plans for the future, so we know where we are, where we are going, and why we are going there.

What if it was the case that the world revealed whatever goodness it contains in precise proportion to your desire for the best?

We only see what we aim at. The rest of the world (and that's most of it) is hidden. If we start aiming at something different—something like "I want my life to be better"—our minds will start presenting us with new information, derived from the previously hidden world, to aid us in that pursuit.

Why remain vague when it makes life stagnant

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

What Starker Leopold was trying to teach Graber was not to master and control everything but, instead, to remember that because human hands were always unintentionally doing something to nature, they ought to do something carefully planned as well.

Escola de Culinária Sabor e Arte… — Repetiu: — Sabor e Arte… — Baixou a voz, o bigodinho roçando a orelha da moça: — Ah!, quero saborear-te… — não apenas um trocadilho de mau gosto mas também franco aviso de suas intenções, deslavada plataforma, claro programa de namoro.

He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence

Persistent ill-humour is all too clear an indication that someone is living contrary to his[her] intended purpose.

It is an unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at some laudable end.

In Madison's formulation, the right to bear arms was not inherent but derivative, depending on service in the militia. The recent Supreme Court decision (Heller v. District of Columbia, 2008) that found the right to bear arms an inherent and nearly unlimited right is clearly at odds with Madison's original intentions.37

Two elements, the one objective, the other subjective, enter into the composition of every Sac rament : the external rite and the interior intention.

The minister need not be in the state of grace, nor need he have the faith (negative disposi tion), but he must have the right intention (pos itive disposition).

There is, first, the actual intention, operating with the full advertence of the intellect. When a minister wishes here and now to confer, e. g., the Sacrament of Baptism, he has an actual intention. Secondly, there is the virtual intention. Its force is borrowed from a previous volition, which is accounted as continuing in some result produced by it. Thus, if a