Quotes About Commitment

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.

Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands alone. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here.

In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.

The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.

Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest in another woman. Maybe you will always be incapable of giving that kind of love. You tell me I want too much. And maybe I do. But like you and your imagination, I can't help but be that way.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would never forget myself.

I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would not forget myself.

Y me hice una promesa: siempre recordaría los deseos de mis padres, pero jamas me olvidaría de mi misma.

Nankingis on lumi nagu kõrge ametnik - ei käi liiga tihti, ei jää liiga kaukas

There was never the right time for me to declare we should be together for the rest of our lives when you were yelling at me that you would never sleep in the same bed as me again.

Actually, I'm hoping we might have that. A commitment through time, past, present, future... marriage.

In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.

I love you, June, and you know how acutely, how desperately. You know that no one can say or do anything to shake my love. I have taken you into myself, whole. You need have no fear of being unmasked, only loved.

All creators are unhappy in life. All creators are absolutists.

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.

He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.

Make the Last Book the first of a series—a life job, like Proust's.

Hugo y yo nos entregamos totalmente el uno al otro. No podemos estar el uno sin el otro, no soportamos la discordia, la guerra, el alejamiento, no podemos dar paseos solos, no nos gusta viajar sin el otro. Nos hemos entregado a pesar de nuestro individualismo, de nuestra aversión a la intimidad. Nuestro amor ha absorbido nuestro egocentrismo. Nuestro amor es nuestro ego.

Nevoia de a creÈ™te È™i de a tr?i intens e atât de puternic? în mine, încât nu-i pot rezista. Voi lucra, îmi voi iubi soÈ›ul, dar m? voi împlini.

A cambio de fidelidad, yo le doy mi imaginación, e incluso mi talento, si se quiere. Nunca he estado satisfecha de nuestras cuentas, pero han de mantenerse.