Quotes About Commitment

If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.

How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied.

Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his life, his affairs were another.

There should be a thirteenth commandment: Thou shall not abandon those who love you.

I would have killed you if you had died.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether or not to marry, whether to have children- one should just go ahead and do it

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

Love and work, work and love… that's all there is

What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most. Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?

Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?

By the grace of God, we two unworthy souls were joined together in holy marriage. Branded by the flames of sin, bowed by the burdens of sin, we came together at the portals of God's house; together we received the Savior's Host from the hand of the priest. Should I now complain if God is testing my faith? Should I now think about anything else but that I am his wife and he is my husband for as long as we both shall live?

Love had always been behind her toil with earthly matters. Erlend had never given her much thanks for that; it was not the way he wanted to be loved. But she couldn't help it; it was her nature to love with great toil and care.

I never thought, she went on, that it would be so easy for me to lie. But what must be done can be done.

He had been so married to her that he had grown pius himself, because he had believed in her piety.

So now you know, Kristin, that I have compromised much, both my land and my honor. You would certainly be much better served if you stayed with Simon Andressøn." Kristin put her arms around his neck. "We will stand by what we swore to each other last night, Erlend—if you feel as I do.

I hoped that I would give to my marriage the same nurturing that I found easy to give to the corn and the tomatoes. Raising a garden and keeping a marriage in shape are not that different.

It's time to get up now. You've got a child to tend to. A life to live. You have to put this behind you and go on.

I think Oscar Wilde is right when he defines love in De Profundis as giving what one does have and receiving that over which one has no power. To love is to commit oneself to another not without the guarantee that love will be returned, but with the hope that it might be. Love takes place in the subjunctive mood: it may be, it might be, would that it were the case. The logic of love is akin to the logic of grace.

The path you choose must be your own. And once that path has been embarked on, you must never falter, never deviate. I faltered... and deviated! And now I must get back on track... if I still can.

Christ asked for everything he got.

I did not act from logic, sire, but pinciple. Where is the value of principle if a man refuses to place his faith in it, come what may?

Sobrevivir era un trabajo que requería todas las horas del día

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.