#commit

Although healing brings a better life, it also threatens to permanently alter life as you’ve known it. Your relationships, your position in the world, even your sense of identity may change. Coping patterns that have served you for a lifetime will be called into question. When you make the commitment to heal, you risk losing much of what is familiar. As a result one part of you may want to heal while another resists change.” Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura Davis ↗

— Laura Davis

#child-sexual-abuse #commitment #copy #healing #identity

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#commitments #poverty #priorities #prioritize #purpose

Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#commitment #love #rose #sweet #vow

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. ↗

— Barack Obama

#commitment #politics #change

Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #commitment #purpose #change

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more. ↗

— Prosper Mérimée

#death #life #philosophy #death

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#am #committed #country #i #i am

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#big #commit #company #doing #dollar

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#amendment #benefit #bush #committed #cutting

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States. ↗

— Will Smith

#becoming #committed #could #i #me