Quotes About Intention

We will not have peace by afterthought.

children learn their experience; they don't necessarily learn what we intend them to.")

Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

One can imagine an argument for the right of a persecuted minority to find refuge in another country able to accommodate it; one is hard-pressed, however, to imagine an argument for the right of a persecuted minority to politically and perhaps physically displace the indigenous population of another country. Yet, as Shapira [Zionist] forthrightly acknowledges, the latter was the actual intention of the Zionist movement.

You cannot tell a man's intention by looking at his forehead, you must look through it to the inside of his head; and no judge and jury are capable of looking through the skull of a man who has done nothing but talk to see what goes on inside." And

All other statements of intention, however fully documented, are suspect. The poet may change his mind or mood; he may have intended one thing and done another, and then rationalised what he did.

Trebuie s? po?i începe ?i sfâr?i când vrei - sau trebuie s?-?i faci rost de o voin??. Voin?a e întotdeauna ra?ional? - ?i puternic?. Dac? vrei, atrunci po?i. Dar n-ai o voin?? ferm?, sau n-ai deloc, dac? e?ti ?i ac?ionezi nera?ional - dac? nu începi ?i nu încvhizi cartea când e bine ?i-n?elept s-o faci.

In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading in itself. Following the lines of something — not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend — becoming surefooted on the high-wire of the author's intention.

No friendship is an accident.

We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us.

I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.

But we can rig the game in our own favor if we understand that God exists to be shaped, and will be shaped, with or without our forethought, with or without our intent.

Name plus purpose equals focus for me.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

One of our most important challenges in life is to remain mindful of who we are and what we are doing. To keep this awareness present all the time is a great support for spiritual growth. One aspect of a spiritual life is to live consciously. For that, we need to be as fully aware as possible. Without mindfulness, we end up sleepwalking through life. We act without realizing what we are doing. – 17th Karmapa

The fact that you have the intention to work for others is important. Act on your wholesome intentions and altruistic impulses. If you have the thought of benefiting society, that is significant. Nurture and treasure that thought, and act on it as best you can. Doing so will certainly change you, and that in itself can be the start of the change you want to see in your world. – 17th Karmapa

If you plan to be happy, you will find at least one reason to be happy. Real happiness is never accidental. Discover happiness on your terms.

anyone who tells you there's one reason for what they do is a liar.

The first thing every neophyte must understand is that God, whatever he is, has nothing in common with humankind, and that he remains so far away as to be completely inaccessible to the human senses. The same is true of his intentions. At no point will people ever learn what he is up to.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

On a bien le droit de se tromper, après tout, mème volontairement.