Quotes about Intention

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

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.