Quotes About Commitment

The person who is talking and making promises, however, is not the entity that commits the violence, and so you can be sure that it will happen again and again unless he becomes present, recognizes the pain-body within himself, and thus disidentifies from it.

Sei also dem Leben treu, indem du deinem inneren Ziel treu bleibst. Wenn du präsent bist und voll und ganz in dem aufgehst, was du tust, werden deine Taten mit spiritueller Kraft aufgeladen. Zuerst mag noch keine merkliche Veränderung zu erkennen sein in dem, was du tust – nur im Wie. Dein vorrangiges Ziel ist es jetzt, dafür zu sorgen, dass Bewusstsein in alles einfließen kann, was du tust.

This is why Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm."2

Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.

Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It's not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

if you're passionate about something and self-motivated, those are the key ingredients.

the bridesmaid's hand in his, Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding. The

I need you for however long you want me.

Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

Marriage is one long sacrifice.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of a duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites. Looking about him, he honoured his own past, and mourned for it. After all, there was good in the old ways.

Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.

she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.

they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is not gold that glitters... ...EÅŸ gibi tatl? bir kelime kar??l???nda özgürlüklerinden vazgeçenler, parlayan her ÅŸeyin alt?n olmad???n? görmeye haz?rl?kl? olmal?d?rlar...

After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...

Here were two people who had penetrated farther than she into the labyrinth of the wedded state, and struggled through some of its thorniest passages; and yet both, one consciously, the other half-unaware, testified to the mysterious fact which was already dawning on her: that the influence of a marriage begun in mutual understanding is too deep not to reassert itself even in the moment of flight and denial.

He and she belonged to each other for always: he understood that now. The impulse which had first drawn them together again, in spite of reason, in spite of themselves almost, that deep-seated instinctive need that each had of the other, would never again wholly let them go.