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Quotes about Intention

Take more time, cover less ground.
— Thomas Merton
The future is the result of what we do right now.
— Pema Chodron
THE UNIVERSE IS set up to work on your behalf.
— Marianne Williamson
Knowing who you are and why you came here -- that you are a child of God, and that you came here to heal and be healed -- is more important than knowing what you want to do. What you want to do is not the important question. The question to ask is, When I do anything, how should I do it? And the answer is, Kindly.
— Marianne Williamson
Whether I am paid or not, whether I am working out in the world or planting my own garden, I dedicate whatever I am doing today to the uplifting of all things.
— Marianne Williamson
And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;
— Aristotle
And to the truth of this testimony is borne by what takes place in communities: because the law-givers make the individual members good men by habituation, and this is the intention certainly of every law-giver, and all who do not effect it well fail of their intent; and herein consists the difference between a good Constitution and a bad.
— Aristotle
Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
— Henri Nouwen
I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.
— Joel Osteen
Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.
— Alice Walker
You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'
— Rick Warren
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
— Ann Voskamp