Quotes About Commitment

Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying…Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. insights accrete.

I wish every aspiring writer or artist could have a year or two years like this—a season when you have no responsibilities except to your own Muse and your own daimon, a run of months when you're invisible to everybody but yourself, when you don't give a shit about anything except the challenge before you, when you could drop dead on the street and no one would stop except to step over your cold corpse, and you don't care.

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that Marine.

I'm trying. I'm giving it my all. The thought of tailoring my output to any market or to please any imagined audience never enters my mind. This is for me. I'm writing to save my own life.

what ails you and me has nothing to do with being sick…What ails us is that we are living our lives as amateurs. The solution…is that we turn pro.

The pro doesn't even pick up the phone. He stays at work.

We become friends instantly. I simply gravitate to him. Tony is the first person I've ever met who actually possesses self-discipline. I have never encountered this before. Other individuals I've admired for their focus and commitment have jobs or are in the military. They adhere to their institution's norms and protocols. That's discipline, but it's not self-discipline. It's externally imposed, not generated from within.

When Brian Eno approached the father of Anthea Norman-Taylor for permission to marry her, he was told, "What you have to ask yourself is, 'Would I wish this woman to be the grandmother of my grandchildren?

Who knew what happened in a marriage, what bargains and compromises people struck?

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

Hunger for God's Word like food. Thirst for it like water. Soak in it like a jacuzzi. Put it on like a garment. Weave it into your soul so that it becomes part of the fabric of your life. When you do, you won't just be trudging up the trail. You will be dancing in the footlights.

Whatever God has called your husband to be or do, He has also called you to support it and be part of it, if in no other way than to pray, encourage, and help in whatever way possible.

So while God gives the husband a position of leadership in relationship to his wife, He also requires the price of self-sacrifice from him. The

pray without ceasing

This is sounding like too much work.

Even if you have the most perfect marriage ever known to man, the enemy will still try to tear down the fence and destroy it by one means or another.

It's interesting that God requires the husband to love his wife, but the wife is required to have respect for her husband.

Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy's plan set up for its demise.

selfishness, or a desire to avoid responsibility.

I pray that we will desire each other and no one else. Show me how to make myself attractive and desirable to him and be the kind of partner he needs.

Although there are different stages and seasons of parenting responsibilities, your heart and mind will always be with each one of your children for the rest of your life.

and life-giving. Ask God to be in charge of your marriage, and tell Him you will do whatever it takes to see that it becomes all it was intended to be. Even if it means being nice when you don't feel like it.

Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

Help us to never cast aside the whole relationship just because it has developed a nonworking part.