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Commitment unlocks the doors of
imagination,
allows vision, and
gives us the "right stuff"
to turn our dreams into reality.
James Womack
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Actualization
of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather,
it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents
to some
cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or
justice.
Sidney M. Jourard
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Love is when I am concerned with your
relationship with your own
life, rather
than with your relationship to mine. . . . there must
be a
commitment to each
other's well-being. Most people who say
they have
a commitment don't; they
have an attachment. Commitment
means,
"I am going to stick with you and support
your experience of
well-being." Attachment means, "I am stuck without you."
Stewart Emery
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Transcendence
or detachment, leaving the body, pure love,
lack of jealousy--that's the vision we are given in our culture,
generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way
to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached,
but to be more attached--to be attached to working; to be
attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone;
to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music.
Robert Bly
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Commitment creates a powerful radiant
energy
that activates all sorts of "miracles" within and
around you.
Susan Jeffers
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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.
Rollo May
The Courage to Create
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It's not how physically strong you are
that matters,
it's the level of commitment that you hold in your
heart
that will get you through the hard parts.
Scott Rogers |
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Commitment is what transforms
a promise
into reality.
Abraham Lincoln
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Commitment is never
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Kenneth Mills |
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It
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The
people who say you are
not facing reality actually mean
that you are not facing their
idea of reality. Reality is above
all else a variable. With a firm
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Margaret
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The
test before us as a people is not whether our commitments
match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will
and courage to match our commitments.
Lyndon
B. Johnson
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Without
commitment, you cannot have depth in anything,
whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.
Neil Strauss
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We receive from life, from
every experience, from each interaction,
according to what we have given. When we commit ourselves
fully
to an experience, it will bless us. When we give ourselves
wholly
to any moment, our awareness of reality will be heightened.
Karen Casey
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Modern
life has made us people of attachment rather than people of
commitment. Indeed, many people have found that it is
difficult to
tell the difference between attachment and commitment in their own
lives. Yet attachment leads farther and farther into
entrapment.
Commitment, though it may sometimes feel constricting, will
ultimately
lead to greater degrees of freedom. Both involve in the
moment an
experience of holding, sometimes against the flow of events or
against
temptation. One can distinguish between the two in most
situations by
noticing over time whether one has moved through this activity or
this
relationship closer to freedom or closer to bondage.
Attachment is a
reflex, an automatic response which often may not reflect our
deepest
good. Commitment is a conscious choice, to align ourselves
with our
most genuine values and our sense of purpose.
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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 |
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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but
the ability
to choose--and commit myself to--what is best for me.
Paulo Coelho
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We only regard those unions as real
examples of love
and real
marriages in which a fixed and
unalterable
decision has
been taken. If men or women contemplate
an escape, they
do not collect all their powers for
the task. In
none
of the serious and important tasks
of life do we arrange
such
a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.
Alfred Adler
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There was a moment when I
changed from an amateur to a professional.
I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when
you
don't want to, don't much like what you're writing,
and aren't writing particularly well.
Agatha Christie
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There's
a difference between interest and commitment. When you're
interested in doing something, you do it only when it's
convenient. When
you're committed to something, you accept no excuses--only
results.
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Coach
said, "the quality of a person's life is in direct proportion
to his or her
commitment to excellence, regardless of one's chosen field of
endeavor."
Sherman Alexie
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Let today be
the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting,
achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you
are committed to
being the change you wish to see and living the life you wish to
live.
Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You |
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