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Quotes About Intention

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
~ Sigmund Freud
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~ Gautama Buddha
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.
~ Frederick Lenz
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.
~ Frederick Lenz
Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.
~ Sonia Rumzi
I'm not out to make everybody happy. I'm out to make the right people happy.
~ W.J. Raymond
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
~ Cullen Hightower
Thought is the seed of action.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.
~ Frederick Lenz
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
~ Frederick Lenz
Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.
~ Frederick Lenz
Set your mind first and your body will follow.
~ Toni Sorenson
If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.
~ Stephen Richards
My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time.
~ Sunday Adelaja
What you feel is what you get, regardless of what you think!
~ Deborah Sandella
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
~ Benjamin Hooks
Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.
~ Leon Golub
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door
~ Harry Wong
I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)
~ Becca Fitzpatrick