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Quotes About Intention

Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you.
~ Scott Cunningham
It bears the gnarls of its history healed over. It has risen to a strange perfection in the warp and bending of its long growth. It has gathered all accidents into its purpose. It has become the intention and radiance of its dark fate.
~ Wendell Berry
He has to reach down with his feet to tread the floor.
~ Wendell Berry
Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).
~ Wendy Beckett
Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.
~ Wendy Mass
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
~ William Blake
Gustavo Solivellas dice: Una verdad que se dice con mala intención. Supera todas las mentiras que puedas inventar (William Blake)
~ William Blake
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
~ William Blake
So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.
~ William Boyd
what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.
~ William Boyd
Birch fallacy is the assumption that you can infer subjective intention from objective consequence: we lost China to the Communists, therefore the President of the United States and the Secretary of State wished China to go to the Communists.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.
~ William Faulkner
For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
~ William Faulkner
He aimed for them to stay put like a tree or a stand of corn. Because if He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn't He put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.
~ William Faulkner
For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
~ William Faulkner
é difícil acreditar que um amor ou uma dor é uma debênture comprada sem intenção e que vence querendo ou não e é recolhida sem aviso prévio para ser substituída pelo título que os deuses resolverem emitir no momento não você só vai fazer isso quando acreditar que nem mesmo ela era merecedora do desespero talvez
~ William Faulkner
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
~ William James
The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.
~ China Mieville
One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
~ Chinese proverb
The "occasionally remarkable" moments shouldn't be left to chance! They should be planned for, invested in.
~ Chip Heath
defining moments can be consciously created. You can be the architect of moments that matter.
~ Chip Heath
Relationships don't deepen naturally. In the absence of action, they will stall.
~ Chip Heath
Moments matter. And what an opportunity we miss when we leave them to chance!
~ Chip Heath
Establishing your core priorities is, unfortunately, not the same as binding yourself to them.
~ Chip Heath