Quotes About Commitment

I don't only want to be your protector, Autumn. I want to be everything you'll ever need—because that's exactly how you make me feel when I'm with you. Like you give me everything I'll ever want and need.

Promise little and do much.

Dancers are made, not born. —Mikhail Baryshnikov

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't, they never were. —Richard Bach

She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice.

just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I guess. I guess, that's what love means.

It is not enough to be loved by your mother. It is a good start, and you wouldn't want to do without, and it helps, but is not enough. You need also the love of your community, the love of friends and admirers, the love of strangers who don't know you but still wish you well, the love that comes from passion and from commitment and from someone who will never, never betray you and not just because they're related to you. You need more love. We all need more love.

Easy is nice, but it's not as good as getting to be who who are or stand up for what you believe in. Easy is nice but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there's not much of it I'd trade for easy either, I don't think.

Penn was a student of narrative and knew that lovers should be wooed, relationships fought for, that anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning.

that was how Penn lost the argument regardless because of course you could uproot a whole family of seven for the needs of just one of them because that's what family means.

That was how, whatever else they were, Claude and Poppy became Buddhists for life.

What is worth doing is worth merely beginning. —Mackapee's Principles for Community

What a maddening life it is, to be committed to a way of living while also remaining open to all possibilities.

Ay, cómo trabajaban las chicas entonces; antes del amanecer ya estaban en pie, muertas de sueño, para disponer veinte o treinta fuegos. Barrer, fregar, limpiar y pulir se hacía sólo para volver a hacerlo. Lavar montañas de vajilla y cubertería, corretear escaleras arriba y abajo; y aquellas campanillas irascibles que empezaban a resonar como en una rabieta… Justo cuando lograbas sentarte un instante.

Believing is essential when changing any behavior

All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come.

To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!

None of my friends knows that most of the sick days I've taken from work are not sick days, but Austen days.

Only Complete and absolute surrender.

Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.

See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will

A great passion has no partner.

Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.