Quotes About Commitment

But something happened to me as I got more and more involved in the Movement. It no longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Only in this hoarded span will love persevere.

I am not seeing anyone or writing anyone—I'm on my 8th draft of this play and how many more—God knows.

she took hold of herself, knowing she owed Jesus a life

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

I hate to tell you, dragon, but that's an integral part of the whole usiness," he whispered. "If you're afraid to touch me then we're not going to get very far." She lifted her head to look at him. "I thought I could lie back and let you ravish me," she said with complete honesty. He shook his head, the smile hovering around his lips, his eyes intent. "This is a cooperative effort, my love. You have to do your part.

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

It is time to expand what has been a romantic attachment to the ornaments of nature into a commitment to reshape the city in harmony with the workings of nature.

Fond as [Naomi James] was of her faraway fiancé, another solo sailor, 'I'm a natural loner because as long as I know [my fiancé] is alive and well, I don't really worry about him. He has his life to live and I've got mine, and if I can survive then I'm sure he can.

In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.

It was scary to need another person as much as you needed your next breath. It implied a need for unlimited faith and trust. You had to believe your love would be there for you always.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

I learned...that loyalty does not mean stepping into line but falling out of it for the people we love.

good—forever," said Ivy. She had come up behind Crummy Matt, and now she stood next to Bean. "She'll never do

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but "'SHE TRIED TO FOLLOW TRUTH.

friendship... it's such a leap of faith

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.