Quotes About Commitment

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer" Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore

Almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

because letter-writing requires more of me than just the basic wherewithal:

daß man nicht das Recht hatte, ein Buch aufzuschlagen, wenn man sich nicht verpflichtete, alle zu lesen

To love is good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation.

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

Mais si, à force de constance, nous acceptons de subir l'amour comme un dur apprentissage au lieu de nous perdre aux jeux faciles et frivoles qui permettent aux hommes de se dérober à la gravité de l'existence, - alors peut-être un insensible progrès, un certain allégement pourra venir à ceux qui suivront et longtemps encore après nous. Et ce serait beaucoup

Sex is difficult, true. But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

love is nothing but the urgent and blessed appeal for another person to be beautiful, abundant, great, intense, unforgettable; nothing but the surging commitment for him to amount to something.

To love is also good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation.

When I go toward you It is with my whole life.

Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation.

que una cosa sigui difícil ha de ser per a nosaltres un motiu més per fer-la. estimar també és bo: perquè l'amor és difícil. Estimar de persona a persona: això és potser el més difícil que se'ns ha encomanat, el més extrem, l'última prova, el treball per al qual tot altre treball és només una preparació.

But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

Aber glauben Sie an eine Liebe, die für Sie aufbewahrt wird wie eine Erbschaft, und vertrauen Sie, dass in dieser Liebe eine Kraft ist und ein Segen, aus dem Sie nicht herausgehen müssen, um ganz weit zu gehen!

Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart....

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.