You have to make your love pure. To do so, you must develop forbearance, which is a serene patience and self-restraint under all circumstances, giving good to all, even to those who may want to harm you. There is nothing greater than having this quality of forbearance. Forbearance is equivalent to truth itself. Forbearance is the heart of righteousness (dharma). Forbearance is non-violence; in practice. Forbearance is contentment, compassion; truly, it is everything in all the worlds. Only when you have developed patience and forbearance will you be able to attain the Lord.

- Divine Discourse on the Bhagavad Gita, 1984.