Quotes About Commitment

The man had no idea what it was like to love a woman more than he loved himself, to be bound to her body and soul, to see her in his children's faces, to know down to his bones that she was the axis of his world.

He turned to her, pulled her against him for one last embrace. " Tha moran ghradh agam ort, dh'Annaidh.""My love lies upon you, Annie, and it always will" . Then he did something she never would have expected. He dropped to his knees, grasped her hips, and pressed his lips to her belly over her womb. She twined her fingers in his hair, stifling a sob. " Tha moran ghradh agam ort, a luaidh .

Soul mate" isn't a pre-existing condition. It's an earned title. They're made over time.

The couple is the most important. It's the only thing that you chose in your life. Your children, you didn't choose. You chose your husband. So, you're going to make your life with him.

For some American moms, there's something morally righteous about committing to motherhood at the expense of their bodies. It's like giving yourself over to a higher cause.

Trust is important,' he agreed. 'Trust is very important, maybe as important as love. But trust can be gained and trust can be earned. Love is either there or it's not. And when it's not, all the trust in the world is empty without it.

The risk he was taking had to pay off. He had to win Mazy for himself. Even if he had to forfeit his own self-respect to make it happen. It was worth it to keep her from making a mistake again.

He stood staring into the darkness, trying without success not to think at all. He belonged to another woman, and Hattie belonged to another man. He asked himself how he could let her marry someone who would never understand her tender feelings.

Is that what you want?" he asked her. "To spend the rest of your life with a man you don't love?

A good marriage should be based on comparable purpose and ambition

I know I ain't smart, Miss Althea. I don't pretend to be. It's something a feller can't lie about. But I can get you game. I can keep ups this farm. And I care about your boy. I care about him a lot. But I'd never get between the two of you. Miss Althea, if you'll marry up with me, I promise to listen to you in the things I don't know about. Work for you 'til my back is broke and my fingers is down to the bone. And love and care for you until the day I die.

Marrying the right girl is the single most important ingredient for a happy life," he'd also said.

Whenever you turn around, I'll be watching and waiting for you.

But I have learned that love is the one area where women should give themselves a break and cut bait. Men are better at that—if a guy isn't feeling great about the relationship, he will leave and not look back. As women, we're more analytical and more accommodating. We tend to hang in there and try harder. But if you're with a dude who's texting other girls, bye-bye.

I love you, Zo. That's yours to keep. No matter what.

C'était un mari, on ne se posait pas toutes ces questions. On se mariait, on vivait ensemble, parfois on riait, d'autres fois on ne riait pas, mais on ne souffrait pas pour autant.

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

Smashing clay pots is called iconoclasm, a good thing when it's needed. The failure to do it when needed is called idolatry, always a bad thing. In both writing and faith, we need to commit conceptual suicide again and again—if we are serious about the vastness of the treasure and the inadequacy of our frail, finite, and flawed words.

This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves... when you love your work that much, and many teachers do, the only way to get out of trouble is to go deeper in.

Vocation at its deepest level is not, "Oh, boy, do I want to go to this strange place where I have to learn a new way to live and where no one, including me, understands what I'm doing." Vocation at its deepest level is, "This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

We must judge ourselves by a higher standard than effectiveness, the standard called faithfulness.

Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.