Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating…

The difficulty in living our religion is when we haven't totally made the commitment necessary.

— LaVell Edwards

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to…

— Anthony Bourdain

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

— Bell Hooks

People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less…

— Andrew Solomon

“The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for example, you’re…

— Jonathan Franzen

If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith.…

— John Templeton

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say?…

— Stephen Levine

When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the…

— Brian Tracy

When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who…

— Anonymous

This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

— Brenda Shoshanna

“One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been…

— Sharon Salzberg

I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight, color, and…

— Amy Bloom

“In contrast, investing time and energy in your relationship with your spouse and children typically doesn’t offer that same immediate sense of achievement. Kids…

— Clayton M. Christensen

Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship…

— David Cannadine

We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from…

— John Piper