Quotes About Commitment

Love isn't a thing, but an endless series of single acts

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

He'd already made her for Kiriath and was backing off like a poet asked to wash dishes.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

If we are invested in a writing life—as opposed to a writing career—then we are in it for the process and not the product.

Art? You just do it. MARTIN RITT

As you give yourself wholeheartedly to me, I am able to give back to you with greater abundance. Do not be a miser with your spirit. Commit to me. Spend energy on me and I will reward you with a life beyond your dreams.

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. —MOTHER TERESA

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process, a loving recognition of all the creativity around us.

The first trick, the one I am practicing now, is to just start where you are. It's a luxury to be in the mood to write. It's a blessing but it's not a necessity. Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

When I make this point in teaching, I am met by instant, defensive hostility: "But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano/act/paint/write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't. So let's start.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

creencia negativa central: a favor de otro, debemos abandonar un sueño bueno y deseado.

When we love our writing, we find time for it. The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Darling,' when Charlie said it, felt like a whirlpool of rapture. Whenever Greenie answered the phone, he would say just that word, and Greenie would say 'You,' which was her way of expressing that he was now the world to her, that he was the one for whom she was always waiting, that he was the high cliff on which she was happy to stand and from which she had come to realize she might, at any moment, jump. Jump with open eyes and outspread arms.

I don't think I'll be getting married. - Cat

Deny it to yourself, but never to me.

I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

For a woman, fidelity is a virtue; for a man, it's hard work.

Nothing else mattered. Of course there was "the rest of my life," both present (my degree course) and future (job, salary, social position, retirement, pension, death). You could say that I put this part of my life on hold. Except that's not right: she was my life, and the rest wasn't. Everything else could and must be sacrificed, with or without thought, as and when necessary. Though "sacrifice" implies loss. I never felt a sense of loss.