Quotes About Commitment

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.

Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She

But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.

Once a woman has a husband and child, her time, her heart, her desires never quite belong to her again. A blessing some days, a burden others, like all the other gifts that life brings.

What did it really mean to love someone? Did it have to last forever to have existed at all?

I think my family has done everything we can for Marshall," said Leila

When life is reduced to the survival of someone you love, everything else reveals itself as trivial.

Daily, she forgave his flaws, just as she knew he forgave hers. Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She

She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.

How much torture will I endure in the name of love?

True allegiance is only given willingly.

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you.

Surely you can entrust your task to your friends. No, said Taran, after a long pause, I have taken it on myself through my own choice. If that is so, answered Medwyn, then you can give it up through your own choice.

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

I cooked for him like a wife and washed his clothes and was a wife in other ways too terrible to mention.

I had named him Trofast – Faithful

words from the Bible: Where you go, I will go. Your people will be my people.

I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

I seem to have accidentally got married, but it's only temporary.

He's not so short," said Ekaterin defensively. "He's just . . . concentrated." Her

One gives you the shirt off his back, mused Des, and the other offers to help you bury bodies. I do believe you have made some new friends, Pen!

Something I did not know at twenty," said Nikys slowly, "that I do know at thirty, is that when a woman marries a man, she marries his life. And it had better be the life she wants to lead.