The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.