Quotes About Commitment

And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand what the saint meant when he said that it was better to marry than to burn. In my experience, if you marry, you certainly won't burn.

But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that. Shouldn't I? A good man would marry you for love. he says simply.

He treats her as if he would spare her any fatigue, as if he has dedicated his life to her happiness.

Makes no difference," he said, with his intuitive knowledge of my thoughts. "No difference at all how your first marriage was. This is my marriage, and I want my wife in my bed." I laughed aloud and snuggled back into his arms. "It's where I want to be," I confessed. "Why would I ever want to be anywhere else?

He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life.

If there is love enough, then nothing—not nature, not even death itself—can come between two who love each other.

He knew then, as she knew always, that it does not matter if a wife is half fish, if a husband is all mortal. If there is love enough, then nothing—not nature, not even death itself—can come between two who love each other.

Remember, she needs you now. Don't sell your services too cheap.

Where have I offended you? I take God and all the world to witness that I have been to you a true, humble and obedient wife. These twenty years and more I have been your true wife, and by me you have had many children though it pleased God to call them out of this world. And when you had me at the first I was a true maid, without touch of man—" Henry

But there are good people whose safety depends on me speaking for them. I have promised to keep the king in one mind. It is easier to stand on your head than keep the king to one mind, Will observes, straight as a yeoman, but upside down. If I were you, Majesty, I would stand on your head beside me.

A steady love, a faithful love, a wife's love is the best.

He did not care, he was besotted with his pregnant queen, he dropped like a boy to kneel beside her, to put his hands on her great round belly and look up into her face.

pilgrims and swore an oath? Who rang the

the wedding should be between him, his bride, and God.

them till the very last moment, and then what did I do but protect the family from

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. —Maya Angelou

Now ask yourself if you're really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won't. So, that means you might lose weight while you're on it, but you'll probably gain it back when you're off it because you haven't made any real lifestyle changes.

Richard made me his wife in the eyes of God; he makes me his queen before all the world. I need wonder no more if he loves me. He has given me his ring in private and the crown in public.

To the happy couple: I wish you a lifetime of passion, tenderness, and joy. And to my little sis, I want to say, wherever you find yourself, just remember, I've always got your back.

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Inspiration exists but it must find you working.

A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

There is no love; there are only proofs of love.