Quotes About Intention

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her for

The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?

intellections have a use, don't think they don't: if the vine couldn't find a natural tree, what would become of it? if structure without life is meaningless, so is life without structure: we're going to make a dense, tangled trellis so lovely & complicated that every kind of variety will find a place in it or on it: you just be surprised: & forgive us: who mean song direct & fierce:

One may observe all the laws and still be practicing a disguised polytheism. For if in performing a religious act one's intention is to please a human being whom he fears or from whom he hopes to receive benefit, then it is not God whom he worships but a human being.

sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

Faith is not a product of our will. It occurs without intention, without will. Words expire when uttered, and faith is like the silence that draws lovers near, like a breath that shares in the wind.

Evolution, blind and slow, has not inched along over billions of years with any intention that it should be decipherable to one or any of its billions of children.

We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

What happens to you happens from you.

Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN