One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.
The devil is compromise.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.
Beauty is the promise of happiness