Quotes About Intention

Not everything that is related to yoga is equally beneficial.

Wenn etwas geschehen soll, wirst du es mit keiner Macht verhindern können; und wenn etwas nicht geschehen soll, wirst du es mit keiner Macht zuwege bringen. (Ramana Maharshi)

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken—rather than being careful with them in the first place.

Se ammazzi per sfizio, sei sadico, sei. Se ammazzi per soldi, sei un mercenario. Se ammazzi per soldi e per sfizio, sei un marine, ragazzo.

When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.

A writer's brush is a warrior's bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The calligrapher is an archer, or a general on a battlefield. Someone wrote that long ago. She feels that way this morning. She is at war.

I haven't always found that it is our intentions, the decisions we make, that shape and guide our lives. The opposite, just as often, it seems to me. Impulse creates our stories, or chance, the entirely unforeseen. And what we remember of our own past can be unpredictable. I didn't learn this at school in Avegna, but I think Guarino would have agreed.

Attention does for consciousness what our hands do for our bodies: it grabs hold of nature so that we can change it

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a virtue.

I am not what has happen to me. I am what I choose to be.

love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.

If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.

A word of warning.... "Sometimes not speaking says more than any words can say.

love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

At times we have to stand up for ourselves and put our foot down, so we put our point across with controlled and calculated anger because many people out there are stiff necked and unrelenting, it's a means to protect one's integrity and at the same time trying to edify the opposing party...but a person that snaps at a whim suffers from chronic anger, lacks self-control and is not at peace with oneself, such a person has deep unconscious issues that needs to be addressed...

Choose each step you take with utmost caution, for the footprints you leave behind are as important as the path you will follow.

Let your actions be your words.

Whatever you do, do it with purpose. It's not something to be ashamed of. It is something to be proud of.

To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

It is seriously believed by some that the intention may have been geodetic, or, in the view of the cannier, domestic economical. But by writing thithaways end to end and turning, turning and end to end hithaways writing and with lines of litters slittering up and louds of latters slettering down, the old semetomyplace and jupetbackagain from tham Let Raise till Hum Lit. Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

The principal form of property in the South was, of course, slave property. Southern states had seceded because they feared that the Lincoln administration would interfere with the institution—despite the president's repeated assertions, well into the war, that he had neither the intention nor the power to do so.

Essential in a concept of power is the role of purpose.

that power is first of all a relationship and not merely an entity to be passed around like a baton or hand grenade; that it involves the intention or purpose of both power holder and power recipient; and hence that it is collective, not merely the behavior of one person.

Anytime he said something about the will of God, it meant he weren't going to cooperate or do nothing but as he saw fit. He had no intentions of leaving Kansas Territory or turning himself in or paying attention to what any white soldier told him. He would tell a fib in a minute to help his cause. He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.