Quotes About Commitment

There's no such thing as ready,' she says. 'There's only willing.

I'll see you later, I say. Such a basic promise. But to Rhiannon, it means the world.

When I say, Be my lover, I don't mean, Let's have an affair. I don't mean, Sleep with me. I don't mean, Be my secret. I want us to go back to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you.

And love. I am here because of love.

Just be warned," you said. "Someday you'll ask me to give up something I really love, and then it's going to get ugly.

haul, v.: Yes, love will bend you over, make you strain. That is the burden of having something worth carrying forward.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to the conquering on its behalf.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

Imperceptible, adj. We stopped counting our relationship in dates (first date, second date, fifth, date, seventh) and started counting it in months. That might have been the first true commitment, this shift in terminology. We never talked about it, but we were at a party and someone asked how long we`d been together, and when you said, A month and a half," I knew we had gotten there.

I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted.

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

People take love's continuity for granted...

Persevere, v. Those first few weeks, after you told me, I wasn`t sure we were going to make it. After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again. I didn`t know whether or to touch you, sleep with you, have sex with you. Finally, I said, "It`s over." You started to cry, and I quickly said, "No – I mean this part is over. We have to get to the next part.

I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

So finally, as a pair of twentysomething men passed by holding hands, Austin said, Hey, that could be us in ten years. And Hugo said, Or ten months. And Austin said, Or ten days. And Hugo said, Or ten minutes. And Austin said, Or ten seconds. Then they each counted to ten, and held hands for the rest of the day.

I loved you from that moment on," I say. "I loved you from that moment on," you agree.

Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

Queria que o amor conquistasse tudo. Mas o amor não conquista tudo. Ele não pode fazer nada sozinho. Ele depende de nós para conquistar em seu nome.

What we're going to do is be there for each other. We are going to be honest and we are going to share our lives and we are going to make mistakes, often with each other's feelings. But we are going to be there. Day in, day out. Because I don't want you to be my date, A. I don't want you to be in my life and back out of it. I want you to be my constant. That, to me, is the whole point of love -Rhiannon

antsy, adj. I swore I would never take you to the opera again.

I'm not talking what you preach-- there is no practicing here. I am talking living what you preach. And to do that, you gotta preach what you live. I know what I'm here for And I know what the Lord is here for. The gospel. I will live and die by the Gospel.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love

When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set and break up. You can plot the points on a graph. And you check up with each other along the way: Can I do this? If I say this, will you say it back? But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.