Commitment quotations

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◆ All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It's a choice you remake every day.

- Aprilynne Pike99

◆ Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

- Hanif Kureishi99

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

- Neil Strauss99

◆ There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

- Wayne W. Dyer99

◆ These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.

- Laura Dave99

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.

- Mindy Kaling99

◆ The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)

- Rollo May99

◆ When you start to care, you can't stop. But the more you care, the more it burdens you. And you start asking yourself: is it even worth it?

- Ahmed Al-Omran99

◆ Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last.

- Dory Hollander99

◆ All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

- Bell Hooks99

◆ I knew that most people would consider us too young to talk about lifelong commitments or marriage, but I couldn't imagine taking her to bed without that promise. Even if it meant never being with her, I didn't want to have one desperate, hurried, hidden night. I wanted to put a ring on her finger. I wanted a future—or nothing. I knew, in her heart, that she would want that, too

- Beth Fantaskey99

◆ If you hide, I'll seek for you. If you're lost, I'll search for you. If you leave, I'll wait for you. If they try to take you away from me, I'll fight for you. Because I never want to lose someone I love.

- 99

◆ Don't make me any promises that you don't intend to keep.

- 99