"The most painful thing, more painful than having the knife stuck in your heart, is to have someone who you may love or care for or be concerned about and they just say something really heavy, like, “I hate you!” One really has to see Krishna behind that. In this world friends will become enemies and enemies will become friends and if you are really just trying to exploit the relationship by enjoying the other person, you are going to get very disturbed." -
Bir Krishna das Goswami
(From a lecture, SB 5.5.30, April 2, 2012, Suva, Fiji)