Quotes About Commitment

Good idea. I'll do it.

And....and well, I can't be kissing a man. that's a good way to get tangled up...in forever

until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago.

I honestly don't know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth.

Stu asked me to marry him

Groothertog Fabrizio, die mijn neef is en de broer van wijlen mijn man, met wie ik zo kortstondig was getrouwd, heeft mij aangemoedigd voor de tweede keer in het huwelijk te treden. Ik geef graag gehoor aan zijn advies... Signor Guido Parola zal mijn prins-gemaal worden. - Lucia

Nou ja, je weet zelf hoe het is. Je hebt me vaak genoeg vijf verschillende japonnen op een dag zien dragen. Denk je dat je dat aankunt als we getrouwd zijn?' 'Ik zal met genoegen toekijken hoe je je vijf keer per dag omkleedt,' zei Luciano.

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope. Fake it till you make it.

I threw away over 1,200 finished pages of my last memoir and broke the delete key on my keyboard changing my mind. If I had any balls at all, I'd make a brooch out of it.

Ezra kissed Ivy's right and then left palm. Your hands. Then he clasped both her hands between his. Ours

He wants out, Annajane thought. He does not want to marry this woman.

That was when it happened, exactly then, the end of a phase, the mental click as the last strand of my private resistance gave way; when I admitted, looking down at his candid blue eyes: there's nothing I wouldn't do for you, absolutely nothing.

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

I'll go on writing till the end of my days. I have been writing too long to stop.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?

We meet wonderful people, but lose them in our busyness. We're, as the saying goes, all over the place. Steadfastness, it seems, is more about dogs than about us. One of the reasons we love them so much.

You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt.

And probably, if they don't waste time looking for an easier world, they can do it.

of work and love, a

creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity.

The working, concentrating artist is an adult who refuses interruption from himself. Who remains absorbed and energized in and by the work - who is thus responsible to the work.