Intent

"Actions speak louder than words." is a rather well know  phrase. Yet lately I saw it a bit different. "actions speak louder then words and intent speaks louder then actions." I immediately loved the whole idea of that. Makes a lot of sense.

Think of two children spatting and the mother comes and breaks it up and one of the children has to get in one last word. She tells the child,

" You apologize to your sister!"

 and the child comes back with a rather harsh

 "Sorry!!!"

Likely the other child does not feel like they were even apologized to. So in this case words did not really make a difference.

But lets take the whole idea a bit further. If ones intent is positive and loving then their words, and actions will always reflect the best in them.

 Intent is that spark in things that makes things happen. So let our intentions be for the best and all will be well.