We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.
If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
Nothing ever goes wrong in life.
I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.