I never promised you a rose garden

I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice […] and I never promised you peace of happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of those things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie […] and a bore, too!

Joanne Greenberg