Quotes About Intention

I have navigated so much of my life on autopilot, moving mechanically through the more routine parts of my day. Then, when the spiritual parts arrive—meetings, speaking, praying, writing, engagements—I ask that His Spirit fill, inhabit and lead me. That is certainly a good thing, but not His best thing. It was never God's intention for any of us to live our lives in the land of perpetually playing spiritual hokey-pokey.

The greatest sin you can commit against your own life is to know what you want and not to act.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that its quite conscious.

Yes, that's what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.

Anyone who needs a reward to be good isn't good. They just like rewards. Good people do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.

Selbstverstaendlich tat ich es auch nicht.

Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.

There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.

I learned to be wary that summer of a pious approach to life that saw good intentions and righteous prayer as substitutes for planning and pragmatic action.

Love is a decision. It's not just a feeling.

It was then we found ourselves too many fields away from where we'd meant to be, with regard to desire, to get there ever, even if—though this was not the case—we'd been told the way.

the best financial plan has nothing to do with what the markets are doing, nothing to do with what your real estate agent is telling you, nothing to do with the hot stock your brother-in-law told you about. It has everything to do with what's most important to you.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

This is crucial: as long as we pray only when and how we want to, our life of prayer is bound to be unreal. It will run in fits and starts.

Il mio voler sol di volere intende

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't then it is of no use to us.

Make no mistake, no matter what, I intend to pursue you, Lexie. To make it difficult, if not impossible for you to walk away … So?" She looked up at him with wide blue eyes. "You're a hard man to say no to," she murmured. He felt himself grin. "That's what I was hoping you'd say.

To plant the seed of mindfulness firmly in your life, set the intention to practice mindful breathing daily.

Plan in Analog — spend time in analog before jumping to digital

I like that. Every time. Instead of 'anytime.' It's pointed." "Well, I mean it.

I know I can be stubborn about technology. I hate the name. I hate the clear intention to shrink our attention span even more. But I do it. I go on fucking TikTok.

Intention without discipline is useless.

What you focus on is what you will create in your life. What you truly believe you are, you will become.

I can't say I've been in love with you my whole life. But I can say that I intend to be for the rest of it. I don't even know when it happened, but it did. I can't get you off my mind or out of my heart.