"Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions"
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"EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION"
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"The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe."
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"If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?"
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"Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you."
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"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."
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"My intentions create my reality."
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"My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention."
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"I always say: Don't die with your music still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. When you do this, you're also tapping into one of the face of intention: love. If you're doing what you love and loving what you do - whatever it is - you make a living at it!"
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"With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved."
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"Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being."
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"Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff."
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"It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems."
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"Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading."
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"A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all."
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"I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there."
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"That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars."
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"I never have a thematic intention at the outset."
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"I don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original."
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"We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now."
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