"Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life."
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"For every act of violence and messiness there are a million acts of kindness and goodness. It just depends where you look. And when I look around at virtually anyone or anything on the planet, I can see another face of intention - beauty."
"Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results."
"Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power."
"Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves."
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
"Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life."
"If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention."
"Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth."
"We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us."
"I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast."
"There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act."
"One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all."
"Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived."
"Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical."
"When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible."
"I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me."
"Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless."
"It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention."
"Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions."