Quotes About Commitment

We've got enough folks spouting those words around here. It's to the point now where even if I wanted to get married, I would resist just to keep from running with the herd.

By the time he got rid of her clothes, he might not be able to get his own off, or ever father children, but then he glanced up, saw her eyes were lit like the fire of glittering emeralds, but decided he'd gnaw his clothes off if necessary.

Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.

Once, walking with him, Paola had stopped and asked him what he was thinking about, and the fact that she was the only person in the world he would not be embarrassed to tell just what it was he had been thinking about at that moment convinced him, though a thousand things had already done so, that this was the woman he wanted to marry, had to marry, would marry.

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

To marry is to surrender everything—not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.

Logic would dictate that if we really wanted to change our lives, we would just do it. Instead, we usually put off goals until next Monday. When Monday comes around, we reschedule the goal until some other time. We never feel quite prepared to start, always feeling a little short on money, time, or expertise.

Democracy is not something we have, it's something we do.

when]asked, "What should I do if I want to become a writer?" "Well," Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark eyes, "My best advice for you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll make a wonderful life.

Key to a happy and long life: "Find something you're passionate about and do it!

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

When there's a war, people get married.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Mountaintop experiences and spectacular miracles won't create faithfulness without a lifestyle that supports it.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to, and reasons to stay.' I just always loved

We were an imperfect family. I knew that. But at last we were on each other's side, dug in with a new and more profound commitment. Our happiness was hard won, it was ours and I was determined to keep us whole.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to, and reasons to stay.

Yet when it comes to going straight to the appointments we make with ourselves and our own fulfillment, we all act very much like the hero of this silly fable: we drive the wrong way. We fail where we might have succeeded by spending the same power and time.

When failure comes about through devoting precious hours to time-killing pursuits, we can all see that energy is being diverted from its proper channel.