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Intention

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else."

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."

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