Quotes About Commitment

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.

Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This

discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

Couples sooner or later always fall out of love, and it is at the moment when the mating instinct has run its course that the opportunity of genuine love begins. It is when the spouses no longer feel like being in each other's company always, when they would rather be elsewhere some of the time, that their love begins to be tested and will be found to be present or absent.

On the contrary, real love often occurs in a context in which the feeling of love is lacking, when we act lovingly despite the fact that we don't feel loving.

The highest forms of love are inevitably totally free choices and not acts of conformity.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems.

Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love

You can love friends enough to cross the worlds for them. Kuriel considered him a few moments longer, then dropped her gaze and petted his foreleg once. Maybe there is magic in the world.

So," Guy drawled. "When are we leaving?" "As soon as possible," Chester told him. "I have a wedding to put off.

Children remind us to promise ourselves to the future. They remind us why the future is worth the promise.

So long as there is breath in me, I will serve life—serve life—serve life.

Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed

I am yours, beloved. As you are mine. For all of eternity…::

O casamento é a pior ou a melhor coisa do mundo; pura questão de temperamento.

A vida é cheia de obrigações que a gente cumpre, por mais vontade que tenha de as infringir

Viverem duas criaturas uma para a outra, confundidas, unificadas; pensar, aspirar, sonhar a mesma coisa; limitar o horizonte nos olhos de cada uma, sem outra ambição, sem inveja de mais nada. Sabe o que é isto? -- Sei... é o casamento por fora. (Linha reta e linha curva)

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.