#intentions

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. ↗

— Criss Jami

#criticism #envy #good-intentions #inspirational #intentions

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#acts #almighty #alone #before #god

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand. ↗

— Alexandra Bracken

#business

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. ↗

— Jim Goad

#good intentions #hatred #intentions #more #powerful

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#intentions #results #art

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned. ↗

— Jess Walter

#desires #intentions #life-lessons #beauty

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail. ↗

— Criss Jami

#burdens #explaining #explanations #frustration #goals

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#hell #human-nature #instinct #nature

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#good #i #intentions #out #sorry