Quotes About Commitment

He worked, not like a man who works that he may live; but as one who is bent on doing nothing but work; having no regard for himself as a human being but only as a creator; moving about grey and unobtrusive among his fellows like an actor without his make-up, who counts for nothing as soon as he stops representing something else.

Samo ?ovjek koji se baš nimalo ne razumije u ljubavne stvari mogao bi pomisliti da su takve dvojbe nauštrb ljubavi. Dapa?e, one su joj pravi za?in. Tek one daju ljubavi žalac strasti tako da bi se strast mogla jednostavno definirati kao ljubav koja sumnja.

Quem não for capaz de defender uma ideia com a sua própria vida, a força do seu braço, o correr do seu sangue, não está à altura dessa mesma ideia.

Even if you do have designs on my cash, and send me down to Pluto with a blow of your oar from behind, you will have rowed me well.

There are people with whom it is not easy to live, but whom it is impossible to leave.

Aunque no tuviera yo el mar y la playa, permanecería aquí mientras tú no te fueras.

Sakykite, kas tai - meil? svetimai sužad?tinei, ir kod?l ta meil? gali tapti sunkiu ilgame?i? min?i? objektu? Jos padar? tai, kad man ? galv? ?m? smelktis vienas žodis, ir, kad ir kaip nor?dama, kad ir kaip drov?damasi, niekaip negal?jau juo atsikratyti. Tas žodis - parazitizmas...

To allow oneself to be carried away By a multitude of conflicting concerns, To surrender to too many demands, ...To commit oneself to too many projects, To want to help everyone with everything Is to succumb to violence.

I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.

effort is necessary, enlightened, well-directed and sustained.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived. ... If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. Let us not fear the responsibilities and the inevitable distractions of the work appointed by the will of God.

For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.

I simply have no business being in love and playing around with a girl, however innocently.... After all I am supposed to be a monk with a vow of chastity and though I have kept my vow—I wonder if I can keep it indefinitely and still play this gorgeous game!

Hullo, Brother," I said. He recognized me, glanced at the suitcase and said: "This time have you come to stay?" "Yes, Brother, if you'll pray for me," I said. Brother nodded, and raised his hand to close the window. "That's what I've been doing," he said, "praying for you.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

For me—the betrayal I have to look out for is that which would consist simply in attaching myself to "a cause" that happens to be operating at this time, and getting involved, and letting myself be carried along with it, simply making appropriate noises from time to time, at a distance.

Father," I answered, "I want to give God everything.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender oneself to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation in violence. It destroys one's own capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes the work fruitful.

Každý skute?ný vztah vyžaduje ?as, jistou otevÃ…â"¢enost, zranitelnost a ochotu nechat se ovlivnit a zmÄ›nit.

The human will to believe is inexhaustible

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

per sfuggire a quel folle alternarsi di flip/flop, hip/hop, non c'era altro modo che lavorare duro, anche se voleva dire procedere in modo lento e frustrante. Amare tenendo la bocca chiusa, aiutare senza rompersi il culo o renderlo noto a tutti: essere calmi, ma partecipi.

If you are not prepared to undergo the extended toil and sacrifice that some particular endeavor may require, then despite having all the native potential for great success in that endeavor, and with all the doors of opportunity wide open, you can nevertheless become an utter failure.

It would be hard to find anywhere in history a record of any other country going to such efforts, for so long, in a cause from which it could gain so little and lose so much.