Quotes About Commitment

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Era demasiado jovem para ter ideia que de que a existência não é feita de arrebatamentos súbitos e de obstinada constância, mas de compromissos e de esquecimentos.

N'ayant pas pu vivre selon la morale ordinaire, je tâche, du moins, d'être d'accord avec la mienne : c'est au moment où l'on rejette tous les principes qu'il convient de se munir de scrupules. J'avais pris envers vous d'imprudents engagements que devait protester la vie : je vous demande pardon, le plus humblement possible, non pas de vous quitter, mais d'être resté si longtemps.

You'd drain someone dry for me?

They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.

No puedes hablar de amor hasta que las cosas vayan mal y consigas superarlas. El amor no son flores y violines. Y tampoco lo es el buen sexo. El amor es lealtad. Es resistir en la batalla, luchar hombro con hombro. La nieve golpeándonos la cara. Los pies envueltos en harapos. La nariz congelada...

But that's the point, Amy. It's easy to love someone when they're on their best behaviour — you can do that in your sleep. The real test is when they're — to use Neeve's expression — a pain in the hole. That's what love actually means.

Katie's mum, Penny, said I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now. And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest prediction. He'll make mincemeat of you. He won't, Katie protested. I'm not going to fall for him. So why are you bothering at all? Just killing time until I die.

It is my honour to act as your ceiling

Creating a healthy relationship is like creating a small, land-locked country. The borders are always under threat and every day you have to shore them up. So when something in the country implodes, the shockwaves move outwards and the borders push back until eventually the crisis subsides …

You don't have to sleep with someone, you can be unfaithful with your emotions.

And not actually the great sacrifice that I'm making

Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Being Married does´t mean you have to give up your sight!

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

We need to display as much conviction behind our love as some have displayed behind their hate.

Most men have no idea of the lengths to which a woman will go for love of the depths of our despair when we feel it cut off.

political disengagement no longer an option for any serious person.

Do terrorists hate us just some of the time? Do they have a casual commitment to their cause? Do they take less than seriously the goal of full manifestation of their worldview? The only way we will triumph over hate is to become as deeply committed to love as some people are committed to hate, as deeply devoted to expressing our love as some people are devoted to expressing their hate, and as firm in our conviction that love is our mission as some are that hate is theirs.

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as to powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

We are poor because we do not work with love.

I can see that the spiritual path has been the calling of my soul for a very long time, and I am ready to devote the rest of my life to walking it as best I can.

Of course, she [Alice Hayward] was right. She always was right, though now and again she suspected, with a touch of exasperation, that John didn't always think so. But he generally let her have her own way, and that, after all, is what matters to a wife, especially is she loves her husband as much as she, Alice, loved her John.