Quotes About Commitment

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. And we're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.

They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.

Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

I'm often called obsessive. I don't think I am ... but I agree that when I decide to go in one direction I really go in that direction.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

I guess you always regret the choices you didn't make, because you imagine that they would have been better choices, that's the thing. But in the end, you just have to choose something and get on with it. Because if you hedge your bets forever, well, you end up with nothing, don't you?

Much of the time, things had been neutral-- they had behaved like a well oiled machine, like a couple of partners running the business that was their marriage. And aren't most marriages like that most of the time? The good ones, at any rate.

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

Only a few, determined individuals possess the resolve and focus to become the best at anything; and I wanted to be one of them.

With dreams comes responsibility.

Love isn't something you have, it's something you do.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.