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• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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• Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

  Mark Twain

  Evil, Half, Good Intentions

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• Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Light, Practice, Consciousness

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• A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Done, Benefits

  "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.

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• Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Imagination, Effort

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• To move forward simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest just happens as a beautiful and effortless flow.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Moving, Grateful

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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mistake, Events, World

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 68, 1799.

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• Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon.
  Laugh.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Yoga Practice, Play, No Regrets

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.2, Conari Press

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• We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

  Peter Abelard

  Issues, Action, Good Intentions

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• All bad art is the result of good intentions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Good Intentions, Results

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.133, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Funny, Mean, Men

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• All that counts in life is intention.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Wisdom, Life Is

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• A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Deeds, Sincere, Made

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

  Caroline Myss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Creation, Should

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Once you put your attention, your thoughts, your energy, your consciousness on a new intention, that's what you begin manifesting into your life. The word "intention," I believe, is really important, because it doesn't leave any room for doubt or maneuvering: "I intend to create this in my life out of the circumstances that I'm now experiencing."

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Doubt, Important

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• I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

  Joan of Arc

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Fear

  "While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt" by Heidi Schlumpf, (p. 37), 2009.

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• If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Change, Fall, Self

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• What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

  Pablo Picasso

  Doe

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• Just what is meant by 'your word?' It means your conscious intention, your conscious direction, your conscious faith and acceptance that, because of what you are doing, the Power of Spirit will flow through your word in the direction you give It.

  Ernest Holmes

  Mean, Acceptance, Giving

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• Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Greatness, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 12, 2010

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• I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

  Charles Darwin

  God, Garden, Thinking

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• Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Thinking, People, Literature

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