Quotes About Commitment

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

I love you. I really do. As I am now, with these last five years behind me, I am a person who is quite terribly in love with you and will always be – or so I think now, today, in this taxi.

Elbow grease" is not a metaphor.

I know that I was often tired or in pain, but you just work through it.

Love is never easy or guaranteed. Real love is a leap, you know. As you get older, you learn how hard it is, how hard everything is, how we never know if there's ground beneath our feet, or if we'll be hurt or heartbroken. But we leap anyway. You have to take that leap.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those involved, and for the mercy on the part of bystanders.

Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to a love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life.

I can't go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.

You should never stay in a relationship for good closet space.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Love is so much better when you are not married.

Maybe love is just that, and only that. The choice you make. And so, you choose to love. You choose to give it all up, to surrender your scared self and live in this mystery. Jik

But there was no version of my life in which I wasn't getting my ass to Svalbard.

Love is not this simple thing. Love isn't this obvious thing. It's not about that first moment of knowing. It's about what you keep doing after you break each other's hearts. It's about choosing each other on terrible days as well as on beautiful ones. It's about picking each other up off the floor and then laughing about it later. You can go pretty far into disaster as long as you're willing to look at each other again. You can fix a lot of failures. You can fail as long as you keep trying.

I had vowed it before, but vows are but a paper study for a monument in stone, to be carved out with much sweat, perhaps not without injury, before the thing stands to be admired.

I was more than an elementary teacher, for I was present, or directly taught the children, from eight in the morning to seven in the evening without interruption. These two years of practice are my first and indeed my true degree in pedagogy. From the very beginning of my

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

I'd like to have a family.