Quotes about Intention

What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.

We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who we are can emerge.

Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.

Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

Many of us think of our daily nourishment only in terms of what we eat. But in fact, there are four kinds of food that we consume every day. They are: edible food (what we put in our mouths to nourish our bodies), sensory food (what we smell, hear, taste, feel, and touch), volition (the motivation and intention that fuels us), and consciousness (this includes our individual consciousness, the collective consciousness, and our environment).

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.