Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. - M. Scott Peck

Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.

The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.

Confronting problems is choosing to suffer now in the hope of future gratification rather than choosing to continue present gratification in the hope that future suffering will not be necessary.