Quotes About Commitment

La vida no se presenta de modo alguno como un regalo del cual podamos disfrutar, sino más bien como un deber, una tarea que es necesaria cumplir a fuerza de trabajo.

Casar-se de maneira geral significa colocar a mão dentro de um saco sem ver o que há dentro dele e esperar tirar uma enguia de um emaranhado de serpentes.

El fin último de todo asunto amoroso es más importante que todos los demás fines de la vida del hombre; y por lo tanto, es merecedor de la profunda seriedad con que cada uno lo persigue. En efecto, lo que aquí se decide es nada menos que la composición de la siguiente generación.

No se acude al matrimonio en busca de una conversación ingeniosa, sino para engendrar hijos; el matrimonio es la alianza de dos corazones, no de dos cerebros.

Says Andrew Murray: Fasting helps to express, to deepen, and to confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, to sacrifice ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.1

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

She said, "I'm not marrying anybody." When I asked her why she felt that way, she said she wanted to be free to die irresponsibly, without notice and for no reason.

they knew that they had to put their faith in fragility. Stick to Smallness. Each time they parted, they extracted only one small promise from each other: Tomorrow?Tomorrow.

Since his idea of professional integrity requires him to live by his principles, in order to remain a person of integrity, he has changed his principles, and now believes in us almost more than we believe in ourselves.

It was that love was all we had. And we needed so much more. All couples do. We needed common passions and interests and goals.

Marriage is not always bliss, but it does not have to ruin one completely." Donata sighed.

The seemingly easiest and most sensible rule for a doctor to follow is: Always Fight. Always look for what more you could do.

Asl?nda insanlar?n baÄŸl?l??a ihtiyac? olduÄŸunu savundu. BaÄŸl?l?k ille de mutluluk getirmez ve hatta ac? verici olabilir ancak hepimiz hayatlar?m?z? tahammül edilebilir k?lmak için kendimizin d???nda bir ÅŸeye adanm??l??a ihtiyaç duyar?z. Bu olmadan bize yaln?zca arzular?m?z rehberlik eder ki onlar da geçici, kaprisli ve doyumsuzdur.

we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable.

So when my turn came up again, I put my name down for duty that night.

They believe in practice, not talent.

Indeed, the most important talent may be the talent for practice itself.

one's willingness to engage in sustained training.

top performers dislike practicing just as much as others do.

and then define a pattern around them.

was willing to make his best effort.

A young doctor is not so young nowadays; you typically don't start in independent practice until your midthirties. We

Equally troubling, people seem happy to let us off the hook.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.