Quotes About Intention

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home.

It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.

Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds we're planning for the other life promised by Allah.

I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

Poetry stumbled upon never seems accidental.

At some point in the evening it becomes clear to me that I spent the day refusing to do anything I'd planned to do in the morning.

If he still isn't giving you what you want, the question to ask yourself is whether you really want him.

Charlotte sighed inwardly. The problem was not that she didn't always understand the full spectrum of human emotions. It was that even when she did, she still gave those close to her the opposite of what they wished for.

Online life is about premeditation.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself "If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?" The answer is your purpose.

I had half hoped that he would be so swayed by my charms that he would propose to me on the spot—even though I had no intention of accepting

When we wear the okesa, we are also farming. This is the meaning of "robe of virtuous field" (fukuden-e). This body and mind is the field we work. It is not a field of fortune from which we can expect to receive blessings without practice. We have to cultivate our life.

When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat.

So if you do something, you should be observant, and careful, and alert.

When you do something, just to do it should be your purpose.

If you are not concerned about what you do, you will not say so. When you sit, you will sit. When you eat, you will eat. That is all. If you say, "It doesn't matter," it means that you are making some excuse to do something in your own way with your small mind.