Quotes About Commitment

Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.

If a duty is clear, the dangers surrounding it are irrelevant.

Nu este nechibzuit cel ce renunta la ceea ce nu poate pastra pentru a castiga ceea ce nu poate pierde.

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In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off and said, 'There you are, my love.

What is it that makes a family? Certainly no document does, no legal pronouncement or accident of birth. No, real families come from choices we make about who we want to be bound to, and the ties to such families live in our hearts.

I'll love you forever in darkness and sun, I'll love you past when my whole sweet life is done.

The one to tell. The one to be told by. For him, that was marriage.

I think love is all about risk. And reinvention. And honesty and revelation. And if you don't have that in a relationship, you don't grow, and you don't stay true to what you started together.

I'll love you forever in darkness and sun, I'll love you past when my whole sweet life is done

The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.

I stood looking at it, and a thousand things occurred to me about the way that even in bitterness and confusion and anger, my parents love for each other endured. I saw that when I was looking at them, I was only seeing the tip of the iceberg. They belonged to each other more that they belonged to us.

that's it. That's what you need to do in your marriage. You need to give what you want. And don't expect so much. That only sets you up for disappointment. If you expect anything, expect that marriage will be hard, that it will be work. And expect that the pleasures will be erratic and often small, but they'll turn out to mean more than you know.

Nothing will bring lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart

love came in without knocking and stayed without your permission. And when hard times came between you and the one you loved, you didn't run away.

You know, if I've learned anything in my life, it's this: you can push away everything but love. It will not leave. It will wait. Unto death, it will wait. You might as well accept it. You might as well give it freely, too—even more than freely. Anything else is pure exhaustion.

What is it that makes a family? Certainly, no document does, no legal pronouncement or accident of birth. No, real families come from choices we make about who we want to be bound to, and the ties to such families live in our heart. Thank you for inviting my father, who is not my real family, but to whom I am also tied.

For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was hard—more than once, I literally had not time for even a bathroom break. (My husband never believed me about this, but it was true.) Never mind that I had to work on holidays and every other weekend and on people's birthdays, my own included; I loved the job.

it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she'd experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah… that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.

That had been last Thanksgiving. And it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she'd experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah…that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.

This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.

I felt mocked. That's what I get for trusting you. He took a step back. Excuse me! Trust doesn't mean you get the response you want from someone, but that you'll get an honest response, and that the other person will stick by you even when you can't agree. Stick by you for how long, through how much? I wondered. What is the expiration date on trust?

This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me. - Tristan Carruthers -