Quotes about Devotion

Friendship is the deepest part of love

I have a Bible near my bed.

I just want a nice guy who loves me and who I love.

Eric Fromm: "The need for . . . an object of devotion is deeply rooted in the conditions of human existence.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

In sacrificing for something worthwhile, you deeply strengthen your commitment to it.

This may sound counter intuitive, but I deeply believe that the path to happiness in a relationship is not just about finding someone who you think is going to make you happy. Rather, the reverse is equally true; the path to happiness is about finding someone who you want to make happy, someone whose happiness is worth devoting yourself to.

Given that sacrifice deepens our commitment, it's important to ensure that what we sacrifice for is worthy of that commitment, as the church was for me and Annie. Perhaps nothing deserves sacrifice more than family—and not just that others should sacrifice for you, but that you should sacrifice for your family

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.

That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

She had a right to his arm, though it was without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone.