Quotes About Intention

The truth is, words are never accidental. To be sure, there are times we utter careless words, but even then those words are first formed in our minds, filtered to our hearts, and then given permission to come out of our lips. So in our quest to use our words in ways that are good and honor God, we must first consider the heart and mind from which they come.

No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

No, love could not be some great heedless unchanging thing. It was shifting ground, changing balance day to day. A word, a gift, a memory, a failed intention. We are only people being as we are, she thought. Anything else is self-deception.

The world doesn't need another wanderlusting soul seeker. The world needs a homemaker - me - to make my home within it.

You must be meticulous about the thoughts you send out into the universe. It's listening.

That sounds as if you're telling me you plan to keep me, lass." His eyes narrowed and he went very still.

Omission or commission—the end result is the same.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?

Careful with that thing, lass. Unless it pleases you to ruin my shirts.

Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list.

Mortality teaches clinicians that there is more to doctoring than diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases, more even than saving lives. Mastery of physiological, pathological, and pharmacological knowledge and expertise is essential, but insufficient. Science only becomes medicine when it is applied with caring intention to promote the well-being of people — mortal people.

How then shall we live? Fully. Intentionally. Attentively. Lovingly.

Because whether I live for another seventy years or another week, what's the point if I'm not living the life I want?

I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle.

a thousand good intentions could never tip the scale over one unforgivable mistake.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

If you are entering into a permanent relationship based on the intention of change, you are on the wrong track.

Whatever we choose to focus our attention on will automatically multiply in our lives.

We'll finish our business, and as soon as we get the chance, we'll come back." The minute the words were out of his mouth, he realized his mistake.

There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.