Quotes About Intention

What is actually man's concern is not to fulfill himself or to actualize himself but to fulfill meaning and to realize value. And only to the extent to which he fulfills concrete and personal meaning of his own existence will he also fulfill himself. Self-fulfillment occurs by itself; not through intention but as effect.

Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended  side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Between the stimulus and the response there is a space, and in that space is your power and your freedom.

Precisely this one, which I had intended to be published anonymously so that it could never build any reputation on the part of the author, did become a success.... Don't aim at success - the more you aim and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued, it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Don't aim at success--the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

Imagine a tiny ant on the back of a massive African elephant. No matter how diligently that ant marches east, if the elephant he sits upon travels in the opposite direction, the ant will end up farther west than his starting point. Similarly, we will find ourselves receding from our goals if our conscious and subconscious minds are not aligned.

He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.

I qualify it as pathetic. Pathetic--because despite the insatiable fire of my venereal appetite, I intended, with the most fervent force and foresight, to protect the purity of that twelve-year-old child.

Getting the clearest possible image of your desired outcomes is a most useful method for communicating with Self 2

Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.")

You're a good man, Dominic Baine." "No. I'm not. But I want to be. For you." "You're the only man I want. The only one I love.

How Well Do These Match? The third key alignment question is, "How well does who you want to reach match up with what you plan to do?" Putting the two funnels together and comparing who we want to reach with what we plan to do can be an eye-opener.

God's divine intention is that we have abundant life by experiencing the closeness of the Holy Spirit in our cells, synapses, thoughts, dreams, attitudes, and emotions—in our entire being.

Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

There is power in words. As workers of magick, we must believe this if we believe anything.

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

I am realizing that intention has a lot to do with how things turn out, and accomplishments don't always have to involve such a difficult personal fight or campaign. So, too, how you tell your story has a great deal to do with how you feel about the circumstances in your life and which direction your story is going to go in.

Sabes que tengo que matarte y no lo he hecho todavía, ni tengo intención de hacerlo, y no te imaginas la cantidad de problemas que me puede acarrar eso. ¿Me preguntas si me importas? ¿A ti que te parece?

Breathe daily for peace; the goodness of your intention spreads Light to the world.

Your every word, your every thought, your every intention is a gift to the world.

It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it. That is the intention of this article.

A better question when asked to take on something in the future: "Would I do this tomorrow?

I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.