Quotes About Commitment

at age seventy-four, she was asked what had been the outstanding events of her life. She responded, "Work and more work! . . . loving everything terrifically. . . . The outstanding event to me is the doing—which I am still at.

The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.

Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do.

What I've found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It's just a question of deciding what to do with that time.

Passion for a pursuit was the best feeling.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it." —Murray Kempton

It takes nothing to father a child. It takes everything to be a dad.

Luck, Nana made a tsking sound. That kind of thinking is naive. A monumental love and a great marriage don't simply happen, like winning the lottery. You have to build it and nurture it, and quite often, it's hard work.

Good God, what must I do to win you?

I want you to look at me and see no other than the man you love. I want you to feel a start of pure joy when you awaken in the morning and find me beside you. I want you to wish you could rush the sunset so that we can be together sooner.

great guy. Wait till you get to know him." I didn't wait, Sophie thought. I fell right into bed with him. "It would never work. I still don't want kids," Daphne said. "I never will. I'm the oldest of five, and I raised my younger brothers and

She suspected that a big factor in her choice was the fact that they were both men. They had exactly zero interest in attacking a woman. But it was more than that. It was the love she read on their faces when they looked at each other, their commitment to openly and fiercely love each other even though society might disapprove. Given its conception during a violent rape, this child might also need that strength of commitment and acceptance.

I would forfeit the very surety of my soul to be the man who brings that look upon your face.

Another thing Gran would say was imprinted on Annie's heart—remember the love. When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.

I came here to conquer you. And here I stay, a willing prisoner of your heart.

I believe that for a lucky few, love can grow from what is truly important in life—honor, respect and recognition. Now, those are matters worth pursuing, wouldn't you say?

I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more

When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.

But between then and now, I had met McQuaid. I had lived with him and learned that sustainable love doesn't grow out of superheated physical passion, but out of simply holding hands and holding on, day in and day out. I'd learned that "good" really is enough, not because you're settling for something less, but because "fantastic" and "incredible" burn you out emotionally, just as life in the fast lane bums you out physically.

I suspect I shall love you, she wrote with a wry understanding, as long as you do me, at least, and perhaps a little bit longer.

It isn't money that moves the world," she wrote to Crane in 1966. "It is faith, conviction, ardor, fanaticism in action.

I understood why it might seem to Dawn as if I were yielding my freedom to provide a home for John. But I wasn't, not really. I was choosing, freely, to commit my time, my work, my attention, my life-energy to the boy. In choosing, I was exercising my freedom.

Write your passion and somebody will pay you for it.

She wasn't the only woman to share FDR's life or his death or even his bed, but she would be the only woman to share his grave.