When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. - M. Scott Peck

If they love their children parents must, sparingly and carefully perhaps but nonetheless actively, confront and criticize them from time to time, just as they must allow their children to confront and criticize themselves in turn. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners.

If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and

A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all.