Quotes about Commitment

No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

To feel at home in a place, you have to have some prospect of staying there.

marriage is the earthly form of love that gives love its place and work and provides for the good care of both bodies and souls. ... Marriage takes love out of the mind and places it responsibly in the world. (Poetry and Marriage)

If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence—that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away.

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.