Quotes About Commitment

I want full-on emotional, sexual, spiritual passion—not the torments of fights and jealousies, but the power of engaging deeply, from the bottom of my heart, with my lover's heart, with lots of ebb and flow in both passion and friendship, periods of great agreement and great distance, but always coming back to each other, to self, to commitment, together.

To enter a relationship for the long term is to enter the space of not knowing. While this is so brave and beautiful, exhilarating even, it is not particularly comfortable.

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

For love may be wonderful, but it demands time, space, energy and a willingness to accommodate.

The more established we are in our world, the less flexibility we have for allowing a partner into that world.

The first amber question to ask is this. Is now the right time to be seeking a committed relationship? There are many life situations, temporary transitions and extended periods where being single is essential.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

When I asked him what he meant by desire, he answered, "I mean wanting something very intensely and with longing—having something that you want to get and that you don't want to live without, so that you become willing to alter existing habits and conditions, so that they become less important than getting what you want.

Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.

After a few months, I was no longer wildly romantic about him. But he gave me a warm place to park my heart while I went about my work.

Writing isn't magic, it's work; earning a living as a writer means showing up at the typewriter every day, whether you feel like it or not.

Knowing the price and choosing to pay it and keep on paying it, over and over again—that's what makes him invincible.

I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.

If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.

I wasn't nearly as good as he was, I knew, but I could at least try to stay in the game.

I'll be here," I said. I shuddered, perhaps from a draft. "I know," he said. And he left.

The one thing she didn't teach me because I was always in a rush was to stick around. I was always getting laid on the run.

You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.