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Quotes About Intention

Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.10
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Whatever we do, with our body, speech or mind, will have a corresponding result. Each action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences. The results of our actions are often delayed. What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Tibetan master has advised: Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Before you speak, think if what you intend to say catches in one of the three sieves: 1. The sieve of truth 2. The sieve of love 3. The sieve of necessity
~ Sokrates
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.
~ Sonia Choquette
One ought not to use words carelessly, or even spontaneously. Once they are launched, they cannot be called back.
~ Sophie Hannah
Mademoiselle, if you had not intended it, it would not have happened," said Poirot. "Hands do not move unless minds make them move....
~ Sophie Hannah
When an author took the time and trouble to choose exactly the right words and arrange them in the right order, there was a possibility of genuine communication taking place, the thoughtful writer reaching the thoughtful reader. The opposite of what happened when two people opened their mouths and simply let their half-formed, incoherent thoughts spill out.
~ Sophie Hannah
Magick has been famously described, as "the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with will
~ Sorita d'Este
The statement, "As a man thinketh, so is he," could equally well be rendered "As a man thinketh, so does he." If one thinks it long enough he is likely to do it.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.
~ Sri Aurobindo
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
~ Sri da Avabhas
Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Now no man, though he prunes, wittingly casts away what is good.
~ St. Augustine
For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created ... intentionally.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.
~ Stasi Eldredge
He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and with mercy, and he wants us to look at ourselves with pleasure and mercy too!
~ Stasi Eldredge
En fait, l'une des preuves qu'une architecture est bonne, c'est qu'on l'utilise comme l'architecte l'avait conçu.
~ Steen Eiler Rasmussen
An intellect that does not have a fixed target is as good as lost. Whoever wants to be everywhere is nowhere. No wind blows for him who has no harbour.
~ Stefan Zweig
Some people believe that an attractive woman cannot stop men falling in love with her; but she can. If she really, in her deepest heart, does not want it, neither will they.
~ Stella Gibbons
Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.
~ Stella Terrill Mann