Quotes About Commitment

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself.

You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the actions of love; if I no longer love you, you will continue to receive the same actions from me, if for other motives.' Thus the illusion remains in the minds of one's fellow men that the love is unchanged and still the same.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.

If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent.

What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life

Of all that is written, I love only that which a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.

Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work!

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. It

Works, first and foremost! That is to say, doing, doing, doing! The 'faith' that goes with it will soon put in an appearance - you can be sure of that!

Many short follies—that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity.

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.

I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are.

Die Sinnlichkeit übereilt oft das Wachsthum der Liebe, so dass die Wurzel schwach bleibt und leicht auszureissen ist.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.

Actors make great sacrifices, which the yokels and even their co-mates rarely appreciate.

When I love I love, when I hate I hate. I don't believe in the kind of love that can be sliced and passed around, the kind of love that undermines and destroys while it pretends to caress.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

A] young husband with an unfaithful wife, who is consecrated and dedicated to continence, eats daily of the Bread of Life so that the bride may one day return to both the home and the faith.