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Quotes About Intention

Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what you want to do—if you can.
~ Richard Ford
Love isn't a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
~ Richard Ford
Purpose is the quality we chose to shape our lives around.
~ Richard J. Leider
In my experience, the universe falls in with worthy plans and most especially with festive and expansive ones. I have seldom conceived a delicious plan without being given the means to accomplish it. Understand that the what must come before the how. First choose what you would do. The how usually falls into place of itself.
~ Julia Cameron
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
~ Julia Cameron
Your depression is exhaustion. Like Atlas, you try to carry this world on your own shoulders. This was never my intention. Allow me to carry the world.
~ Julia Cameron
Understand that WHAT must come before the HOW. First choose WHAT you would do. The HOW usually falls into place of itself.
~ Julia Cameron
Conectar nos coloca en un estado de consciencia y, desde la consciencia, podemos realizar cambios, o al menos intentarlo.
~ Julia Cameron
Primeiro, escolha o que gostaria de fazer. O como geralmente irá se alinhar.
~ Julia Cameron
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. EDDIE CANTOR
~ Julia Cameron
Creativity is the natural order of life, nothing we need to invent. Put simply, creativity is God's gift to us. Our use of it is our gift back to God. We are intended to be creative.
~ Julia Cameron
love might or might not promote kindness, gratify vanity, and clear the skin, but it did not lead to happiness; there was always an inequality of feeling or intention present. such was love's nature. of course, it 'worked' in the sense that it caused life's profoundest emotions, made him fresh as a spring's linden-blossom and broke him like a traitor on the wheel.
~ Julian Barnes
De haber vivido, ¿habría disfrutado de la vida, como la mayoría hacemos o intentamos hacer? Quizá; o tal vez habría albergado culpa y remordimiento por no haber sabido acoplar sus actos con sus argumentos.
~ Julian Barnes
I will find her. And when you do? Roger asked. I will make her mine, the warrior answered in a hard, determined voice. She will be mine. The vow was made.
~ Julie Garwood
Do you deliberately try to provoke me?" He waited for her denial. An apology, too. He didn't get either. "Yes, I do believe I am trying to deliberately provoke you.
~ Julie Garwood
Something about knowing exactly what you're doing, and why.
~ Julie Powell
He had high hopes that the key to unlock the riddle of four people's deaths was hidden on this tape. He'd pushed play fully intending to be satisfied with just a clue, any clue. There can't be any danger, he was thinking. What harm could come from just watching a videotape?
~ K?ji Suzuki
Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself.
~ Kant Emmanuel
There is also a widespread assumption that the Bible is supposed to provide us with role models and give us precise moral teaching, but this was not the intention of the biblical authors. The Eden story is certainly not a morality tale; like any paradise myth, it is an imaginary account of the infancy of the human race.
~ Karen Armstrong
man of the Axial Age, Confucius wanted people to become fully conscious of what they were doing. Performance of the li was
~ Karen Armstrong
the anonymous Chinese author we know as Laozi pointed out that no matter how good his intentions, violence always recoils upon the perpetrator.
~ Karen Armstrong
My words, sometimes even my lack of words, have caused me much pain over the years. It hasn't always been that I have gossiped or lied. Sometimes I just talk too much. Or I repeated the words of others, which I should not have. Other times I have tried to say the right thing, but it came out the wrong way. Or I have said the right thing but in the presence of the wrong people or at the wrong time. There was just no shortage to the ways I could misuse my mouth.
~ Karen Ehman
Ah, lassies, be sure ye make good decisions, firm and fast. Those who don't know what they want get what they deserve. OLD WOMAN NORA OF LOCH LOMOND TO HER THREE WEE GRANDDAUGHTERS ONE COLD NIGHT
~ Karen Hawkins
Women never dress without thought.
~ Karen Hawkins