Here at Intent, we're thinking about what we want to achieve, what we want to create and what we want to feel in the year ahead.

Some in our community have shared their intentions.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Filmmaker Danny Boyle, Singer Melissa Etheridge and more explain what they want to do and be in 2009: 

"My intent is to be the centre of serenity."

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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"My intent is to choose only love."

- Melissa Etheridge, Musician

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"My intent is to to uncover perfection in the mundane."

- Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress GOOP.com

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"My intent is to use filmmaking to mesmerize people, when they stop their lives for storytelling."

- Danny Boyle, Director - Slumdog Millionaire

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"My intent is to make as many people as possible aware that the four questions and turnaround of The Work exist, and that it is possible to end all our suffering."

- Byron Katie, Author

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"My intent is to stay in harmony with the universe so as to recognize how to use whatever platforms it offers me for the greatest good."

- Alan Colmes, Hannity and Colmes

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 "My intent is to have at least 100 million people join me in taking a vow for non violence in thought, speech and action asap."

- Deepak Chopra, Doctor and Author

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 "My intent is to live in a world where compassion and caring are the universal language in which caregivers, children and culture."

- Donna Karan, Fashion Designer and Humanitarian

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 "My Intent is to show that you are perfect just the way you are, only perfection exists."

- Don Miguel Ruiz, Author

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"My intent is to live simply so that others can simply live."

- Ed Begley, Jr. Actor and Environmental Activist

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 "My intent is to ensure safe motherhood to all women. "

- Christy Turlington, Model and Activist

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 "My intent is to expand in love and creativity every day as I inspire others to do the same. "

- Gay Hendricks, Author

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 "My intent is to live in a world where no woman with cancer loses her life due to late stage diagnosis."

- Fran Drescher, Actress and Activist

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"My intent is to help kids grow by sending them to summer camp so that they can learn how to be independent and part of the community and to find joy in life and try new things."

- Lisa Loeb, Singer/Songwriter

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 "My intent is to raise breast cancer awareness through hope, research and activism."

- Olivia Newton John, Singer and Activist

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"My intent is to confront falsehood with Truth, dissolve division into Unity,extinguish hatred with Love and defeat war with Peace."

- Salman Ahmad, Rockstar, Activist and Doctor

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What do you aspire to be personally, socially and globally in 2009?

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