Quotes About Commitment

Why do some people gravitate to a sentimental picture? Well, think about it: A sugar-coated Christ requires nothing from us—neither conviction nor commitment. Why? Because it's an image that lacks truth and power. We have to try to change that picture. And the only way to do it is to think about the resurrection.

Porque estar en pareja implica no sólo la capacidad de albergar la dulzura del amor, sino también la capacidad de enfrentar juntos las tormentas

Una vez me dijo que por mí iría hasta el infierno; nunca entendió, yo quería seguirlo a él al cielo.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Morir por un a religión es más simple que vivirla con plenitud.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

General Kuribayashi

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

But marriage is marriage, you know. Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

It took me a long time to get around to marriage, principally because I felt that women always wanted to have fun, and that was not my interest at all. It would interfere with my reading. That's really the truth.

You're no longer this one alone; your identity is in a relationship. Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Half, Not Half-Assed

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

I belong with her, wherever that may be.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.

It's going to be a tedious business, but we will see it out.

Life without sacrifice is like a pretty rose without smell and thorns.