conflicting intentions Quotes

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

I think that there are just people who are hurting other people, sometimes for the best of intentions and sometimes for the worst. In different times in my life, I've been the hero and I've been the villain. I also think that we're all evil sometimes.

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.