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.
Byron KatieNo one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.
Byron KatieEvery (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
Byron Katie