#commit

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#carpe-diem #commitment #courage #here-and-now #indiviuality

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#courage

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bravery #commitment #consequences #courage #courageous

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 May

#conviction #doubt #courage

Following Jesus isn’t something you can do at night where no one notices. It’s a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That’s not the small print—that’s a guarantee. ↗

— Kyle Idleman

#faith #jesus #redefine #sacrifice #faith

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come. ↗

— Susan Cooper

#faithfulness #trust #faith

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#gay-marriage #gay-rights #homosexual #humor #marriage

Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go home and base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes. ↗

— Laura Munson

#freedom #happiness #suffering #freedom

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. ↗

— Cornel West

#loyalty #relationships #life

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#disappointment #fear-of-commitment #love #relationships #risks