Quotes About Intention

When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings... it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention.

Try always to keep the right posture, not only when you practice zazen, but in all your activities.

Just to be sincere and make our full effort in each moment is enough.

When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

Make every moment of your life worth dying for.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As regards being dead, however, one of my main consolations has always been that I have the strongest intention of being an extremely active ghost. Let nobody make any mistake about that.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.

O amor pode ser ordenado, pois, essencialmente, não é uma emoção, mas uma decisão de querer que leva à ação. (p.228)

Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be a dickhead. Well, I did.

Don't just walk, but make each of your steps count.

We live according to an agenda we drafted for ourselves.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.