Quotes About Commitment

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

Being in love and getting married, now, that's two different things. I was in love once, of course I was. Nobody should go through life without falling in love. But didn't you love him enough to marry him? I loved him enough, I just loved my freedom more.

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees

Let's] put feet to our prayers.

She used to say, you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

Actually, you can be bad at something, Lily, but if you love doing it, that will be enough.

What matters is giving over to what you love.

But you didn't love him enough to marry him?" She smiled at me. "I loved him enough," she said. "I just loved my freedom more.

for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou longest, i will lodge; thy people will be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

That was the way mauma had lived her whole life. She used to say, you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

Do you think I could keep bees one day?" I asked. August said, "Didn't you tell me this past week one of the things you loved was bees and honey? Now, if that's so, you'll be a fine beekeeper. Actually, you can be bad at something, Lily, but if you love doing it, that will be enough." The

Which end of the needle are you going to be- the side held by string or the point that pierces the cloth?

Years ago, your father and I adopted this piece of chain as a symbol for our marriage. The two outer links represent each of our lives and the center link, our marriage. It reminds us that we have independent lives, dreams, and journeys, but at the same time, we are joined in a center space where our lives are one. We

I loved her the way you love God, with all my heart and soul and might.

I told Sabe floor-scrubbing was winter

I must give myself to something.

The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come

you got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth. I

I would say, I loved her the way you love God, with all my heart and soul and might.

I will think only of him. I will give him more than my presence; I will give him the full attention of my heart. That would be my parting gift to him. I would go with him to the end of his longings.

I will think only of him. I will give him more than my presence; I will give him the full attention of my heart.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.