Quotes About Commitment

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice

would you dare to love me?

I am wed now. My husband is Zane. I'm sorry.

I would give up all the summers of eternity for you. I love you. Forever and my summer days, I'll love you.

I love you. At your best and your worst, I love you. Paris or Darkfrith. Here, there, and everywhere, I love you.

Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you're not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you.

Being in love makes all that work easier, but it does not make it go away. There will be necessary sacrifices. There will be pain.

You deserve someone who loves you without conditions. Who would never look at another woman for the rest of his life with anything but indifference, because you are the sum of his dreams. The one girl whose eyes shine with all the days and nights he prays will come. His stars and his sun and his moon. His happiness, his true heart. His voice roughened. His everything. She gazed up at him, her lips trembling. Is that it? Is that how you feel about her? Yes, he said, and dropped his hands.

Even as a child, she'd never spent hours daydreaming about her wedding; it all seemed rather silly to her. Surely the most important part of it all wasn't that day. It was every day after.

Because love is a tremendous gift, Maddy. A gift and a burden. Marriage especially is more than just hope and luck and a handshake. Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you're not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you. I imagine the colonel could tell you something about what that's like.

Because love is a tremendous gift, Maddy. A gift and a burden. Marriage especially is more than just hope and luck and a handshake. Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Maybe love's more than the daily comforts: more than morning coffees and flowers and notes in my lunch bag and holding hands while watching the stars. It's about never giving up, believing in each other, and supporting each other through the good and the bad.

But you gotta do what you gotta do till you can do better.

As they lay entwined together afterwards, they both were sure their future was blessed, and it would never have occurred to them that Henry and Eleanor had once believed that, too.

And you couldn't say, could you, that the touch you had from me was other than the touch of one who could love for life—whether we were suited or not—for life, like a sentence. And now that I consider, the touch that I had from you became not the touch of the long view, but like the tolerant willingness of one who is passing through.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust

Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to be overcome so that one day we can come to the real meditation.

Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it's necessary to start with ourselves.

My family had chosen the army as my career, and war is the army's stock in trade.

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.