Quotes About Commitment

If they were to ask me what road leads to heaven, I would answer them: the most difficult!

As if Christ were a medicine to be taken only when gravely ill, and of no use so long as you can have a good time, eat, drink and make love.

Pentru c? se face treaba pe jum?tate, îmi spunea el uneori, c?-ÅŸi spun oamenii oful pe jum?tate, c?-s p?c?toÅŸi sau cinstiÅ£i pe jum?tate, de-aia e lumea în starea jalnic? în care e acum. Mergi pân? la cap?t, loveÅŸte cu putere, nu-Å£i fie team?, ÅŸi vei birui. Bunului Dumnezeu îi e de-o sut? de ori mai scârb? de-o jum?tate de drac decât de-un drac ÅŸi jum?tate!

All love is one; it is exactly the same whether it be for wife, son, mother, fatherland, or for an idea, or God.

No, eso es ser taxidermista. Yo seré médico y pasaré toda mi vida atendiendo al pueblo de Masqat en tiempos de enfermedad, que es lo que debe de hacer un médico. ¡Tú no eres capaz de decidir si quieres ser cirujano, taxidermista, médico o... comadrona con cojones! ¡Quieres hacerlo todo!

Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

It's easy to think of things that need to be done, but they all have a prerequisite, namely, a mass popular base that is committed to implementing it.

You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history.

If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.

It is easy to be carried away by the sheer horror of what the daily press reveals and to lose sight of the fact that this is merely the brutal exterior of a deeper crime, of commitment to a social order that guarantees endless suffering and humiliation and denial of elementary human rights

media are independent and committed to discovering and reporting the truth, and that they do not merely reflect the world as powerful groups wish it to be perceived.

alleged commitment to democracy and human rights is mere rhetoric, directly contrary to actual policy.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

MARIE    I'm saying that the right man for you might be out there right now and if you don't grab him, someone else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband.

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.

The point (I was starting to realize) was about putting it together. The point was making people feel at home, about finding your own style, whatever it was, and committing to it. The point was about giving up neurosis where food was concerned. The point was about finding a way that food fit into your life.

He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always love her even though Thelma didn't give a rat's ass about him and never had.

My marriage to him was as willful an act as I have ever committed; I married him against all the evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

That's what a marriage is...Pieces break off, and you glue them back on.

when you find the one you want to spend the rest of your life with, you want the rest of your life to start now

Arthur and Julie and Mark and Rachel. The Siegels and the Feldmans. It's not just that we were best friends—we dated each other. We went steady. That's one of the things that happens when you become a couple: you date other couples. We saw each other every Saturday night and every Sunday night, and we had a standing engagement for New Year's Eve. Our marriages were tied together.