Conflict Quotes
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"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you then you must ask yourself if you have the problem or is it really them? God doesn’t make us try so hard, only enemies do."
"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."
"To live is to war with trolls."
"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."
"I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy."
"Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered."
"I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry."
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
"I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict."
"Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in."
"The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled."
"Don't feed your ego with my soul."
"Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do."
"Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated."
"The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts."
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."
"Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world."
"Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict."
"The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design."
"But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it."
"The course of true love never did run smooth said by lysander"
"Read this first volume and you'll want to finish the next two--300,000 words in total--with the first 90,000 setting the stage for a life-affirming masterpiece, and characters you will never forget!"
Frank Audrain, Everlasting Spring: Beyond Olympus: Book One, Benjamin & Boudica
"But in the midst of this decaying, burning city, there are pockets of hope. It can be found in the tiny dark rooms in underground bars, where women with short hair cheer on men in dresses. It can be felt in abandoned cinemas where anonymous strangers fall in love if only for a few moments, and in the living rooms where families crowd around, drinking sweet black tea and Skyping their homesick relatives so that together they can watch the long, rambling talk shows that go on all night."
"They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tears.They took one look at me,And decided I was wrong.They took one look at me,And now I'm singing the slave mans song..."
"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell."
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
"There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourcountry?"
"I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company."
"Peace ain't worth fighting for."
"Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books."
"Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it."
"These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief."
"In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated."
"Strategy can turn a losing battle into a winning battle."
"Time well-spent is life well-lived."
"Relationships are built on trust."
"Time management is essential for a work-life balance."
"Compromise makes relationships survive."
"Sometimes, changing circumstances also changes relationships."
"Good times don’t last and bad times don’t stay forever."
"Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo."
"Perseverance guarantees success."
"Strategy is influenced by circumstances."
"Knowledge is something that fire cannot burn, water cannot wet, air cannot dry, thieves cannot steal, and the more you spend the more it increases."
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