Quotes About Commitment

Anything, Christa?" he said. "Anything? What you're asking me to do is a mockery. So you had best mean it. You would do anything to save this place. You'd marry that white trash. You'd marry me.

Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not here in the name of religion. Religion is an organization. Faith is within. ... Catholic, cattolico--- it means universal. Too often we forget that.

He caught her arm. "I'm sorry," he whispered. His blue eyes were intent upon hers. "For I will love you the rest of my life.

I am here, trying. I am a person who tries. I do what I fucking can. It's okay to just try.

At 6 A.M., I quit email because that's what writers do if they want to get some motherfucking writing done.

I wasn't sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself.

It takes work sometimes, to love the people you trust, and to trust the people you love.

Whether he was flirting with you, hiring you, or marrying you, Don Draper was just not that into you.

But we weren't married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted.

the opposite of holding on is participating in something larger than ourselves.

Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body's frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You've in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.

I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.

A love that lasts is a chivalrous kind, that is the hero through rain or shine and accepts when it has become ill and needs some love back.

Life is love deciding to live our lives.

Love is spoken from the heart, the heart is spoken out of love, but I love you still and always will.

Love is the determined singing of a song whether it makes you feel bad or not.

My love grows stronger for you because my love grows stronger with you

The love I feel when I hold your heart grows bigger and stronger even when we part and ripples through each galactic part until we meet again and you pick up my crushed heart. I will never let your love go.

You are the engine to your love of another so love steadily and your pace will last until that love needs to fix you.

If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?

Was he really meant to give up his own life to care for her every hour of the day? Had he really signed up for that?

When you write, you believe in something no one else can see. You spend lots of time committed to a project for which there are no assurances, no guarantees. Being a writer subjects you to the same doubts, the same unpopularity, the same nagging questions that believers struggle with. Writing is communing with the unseen…

Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to. You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.

Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than writing a whole bunch of reports. What's in your head does not count, not for sculpture, not for book writing. Pencil on paper is what matters. Words on paper, pages and pages, chapter after chapter.