Quotes About Commitment

Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.

Un contrato no consiste en decir lo que pretendes, sino en pretender lo que dices. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (Médico, poeta y humorista, 1809-1894)

Talking does not heal; taking action does. While it is essential to work at maintaining a positive attitude whatever your illness, healing requires dedication and commitment.

Once a mother, always a mother. You don't ever get to quit or retire.

Of course Trudy is here. God knows she'll do what's right. Good old dependable Trudy. She's never rebelled and never will. She'll be the good child to her dying day. Only reason I'm here is to

Love. Work. Family. The future. Forever.

Believing is the key." Luke stretched out beside her. "I believe I love you. I believe you love me. I believe we will be happy and that we'll get through whatever life throws at us together.

about them anymore or the cowboy I'm about to marry. And Finn

like him first and foremost, because that goes beyond all the rest. It's what's left when you're old and lust isn't there anymore for health reasons. It's the glue that holds a marriage together

Darcy shook her head. "I thought it would be wonderful to have Calvin this close, but it's not. I can't get past this thing I have for him. I've tried and tried, dated other men, but none of them measure up or make me feel like he does. I have made up my mind to be single forever and dote on Sophie." Darcy shrugged. "Why couldn't you sleep?

What Wyatt had done or hadn't done was on him. She had a bright future ahead of her—hopefully sharing every minute of it with Mack and her children.

There's a difference between love and being in love, and also in liking a person. Love is akin to lust, and lasts a few minutes a day. In love is deeper than that. But, honey, you better like him first and foremost, because that goes beyond all the rest. It's what's left when you're old and lust isn't there anymore for health reasons. It's the glue that holds a marriage together," Vera told her.

Oh. My. Sweet. Lord, she gasped. If every time gets more intense, we'll burn out the relationship, he said hoarsely. But what a way to go. She nestled down into the crook of his arm when he shifted his weight to one side.

Love is fine and you've got to have it. But there's times when love gets thin in any relationship and like has to step in and take over. If you don't like him as well as love him, then you're goin' to be out in the cold when the love is tested.

Please go home with me and stay forever. I will hide you in my closet and take you out at night, and I promise to be gentle, he said between kisses.

Love didn't fail. It was lack of love and commitment on one or both sides

What in the devil is a forever thing?" he asked. "It's a thing that lasts way past attraction and saying the vows in front of a preacher. It's something that endures the fights as well as the good times right up until the last breath is drawn. That's a forever thing

Two people were supposed to have enough love to carry them through the bad times.

Deke met them on the porch and led the way into the house. Taller than the Dawson brothers, he was every bit as handsome with thick brown hair that he wore long enough to be sexy, hazel eyes, and broad shoulders. Women tended to flock to him like a moth to a burning candle. But taming Deke would be harder than training a Dawson cowboy to the halter. He was full of tough cowboy charm, and it would take a special woman to rope him and get him aimed toward the altar.

Darlin', never doubt that my fears are every bit as big as yours, with commitment topping the list in big bold letters. Don't run away, Callie. I need you to stay, he whispered softly. I want to stay, she said just before he kissed her again.

Finn slipped an arm around her waist and squeezed. We've got to keep them, Callie. I'm already attached to the critters. We talkin' about Angel and Pistol or the kids? The whole lot of them. Verdie included. A ranch is just dirt without kids and animals even if they knock over Christmas trees and fall in mud and cow shit. But it needs a good woman, too. You callin' me a good woman, or are you going to put an ad in the newspaper for one? she asked.

And to think," Ned said huskily, "only this afternoon I thought I'd lost you to another guy.

He was an attractive Emerson College football player who dated Nancy exclusively.

Not me." Ned laughed. "My future is pretty well set, and I don't want anyone tampering with it. I'll go into business, prosper, and marry a certain ambitious young lady named....