Quotes about Intention

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

of your consciousness. Instead of single-mindedly pursuing some goal,

There is no randomness about your life. Here and Now comprise the coordinates of your daily life.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her characters up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worthwhile, too. Some day I might examine the other end of her books and see.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

Think with the end in mind. Before you go on a trip, you determine your destination and plan out the best route. Before you plant a garden, you plan it out in your mind, possibly on paper. You create speeches on paper before you give them, you envision the landscaping in your yard before you landscape it. You design the clothes you make before you thread the needle.

Seek with enough conviction aforethought and ye shall find.

I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.

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

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.