Quotes of: Commitment Keyword

She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret th...

Brida

This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address the question of compatibility in a prospective spouse. If you think of marriage largely in terms of erotic love, then compatibility ...

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of te...

The Nonesuch

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

Passion fuels dreams. Commitment fuels action. Get clear about what you want to do and why you want to do it. Take action. Your time is now.

Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)

Eleanor & Park

No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek for forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.

On Eagles Wings:Rise

I prefer 'buccaneers',' he grinned. 'A small privately funded army of committed peacekeepers. Tough, but fair. Our motto is: We put the fist in 'pacifist'.

Force of Habit: Sister Madeleine Investigates

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Fall on Your Knees

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed for blame.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Happiness is a booty call: available and satisfying, but after a few hours, you’re ready to call an Uber and get back to your real commitments.

The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By

Very few changes in life are achieved without effort and a commitment to making that effort.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

The most important commitment you will ever make is to being the best you can be.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless. It didn't undo the harm he had wrought; it didn't please anyone or improve anyone's life.

Brute

For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent.

Tracy McMillan