Quotes About Intention

Discontent is the initial motivation to becoming content. Let restlessness propel you to your right place. Your experience of "not it" amplifies your intention to find "it," and you surely will.

if it's not advisable to pray for a particular result, what should you pray for? Pray or intend for qualities of experience such as well-being, inner peace, abundance, harmony, and happiness.

What you condemn you continue. Focus on where you want to go rather than what you want to get away from.

When your intention is clear, so is the way.

When you pray for things, you are really seeking the feeling the thing brings you. Cultivate the feeling, and the thing becomes secondary. Then it will come spontaneously and effortlessly.

The less you believe you have to do, the more you achieve what you need to do.

The world has drifted unspeakably far from its origin and intention, and is not a worthy guide to what is right, true, and healing.

I live in the world I choose with my thoughts.

When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it.

man can do what he wants," said Schopenhauer, "but not want what he wants.

Design is based upon resolving how someone is going to use something. Great design is describing the very best experience for them, then moving towards that ideal.

Aristotle also felt strongly that virtue requires action; mere noble intentions are not enough.

As a law graduate, this allowing of intention to trump outcome rings alarm bells for me. Imagine if while driving your car, intending to bring a friend to the hospital as quickly as possible, you hit and killed a child. You would not expect to tell that story to friends and have them respond, 'Great, so good of you to get your friend some help. Well done – and no matter about the child, you didn't mean to kill it.

Brown, in retrospect, was a serious disappointment, but if we can learn the lessons it did not intend to teach, it will not go down as a defeat.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

This is the world of Krishna, a world where what matters more than the deed is the thought behind the deed.

To light a fire wood must burn. To feed the cow, the grass must be cut. Until the rakshasas learn to trust us, we will be seen as threats and rivals. Until then there will be violence. They will be hurt. We will also be hurt. What matters is our intention. Eventually relationships will be introduced and affection will prevail.

The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let them spring forth from love Born out of compassion for all beings. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.

The one thing he has no intention of doing, however, is investing the $10 million check so that it can generate money to cover hardworking union members' pensions in the years to come. He pours it into the river of cash that nourishes his fraud and benefits his family, as he has done so many times before.

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

Moon. That's when we want things to grow and get bigger and bigger. Even if you want to lose weight, when it comes to a vision board, think of the weight

done for the last few days has been completely wrong, even though you did it with the best of intentions. This is the risk you agreed to take. There are always consequences." "Can I leave the baby with you?" she asked.

Having something to say is a curse; having an ax to grind is deadly. But everything makes poetry happen.

It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.