I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses....

We don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

Peace ain’t worth fighting for.

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

Never reject an idea because it will create conflict!

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict – but I don’t see the world as defined by them.

The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love.

Would you like the rhythm of your heart to be calm?Would you like the music of your soul towards harmony and fulfillment?Deal with any conflict constructively to reduce stress, tension and other unwanted collateral effects....

How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks,...

Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.

Do you know how many acres of beautiful forests and moors have been destroyed by your company? How many animals have lost their homes and how many trees have been murdered? I am sick of...

It wasn’t even a fight, really. We didn’t shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

The national government has certain kinds of compelling interests that conflict with the right of the press to keep their sources confidential, like national defense and security.

You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.

for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.

Takamasa Saegusa: ‘Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off...

So it’s a strife here, in a way, between position—between the CEO and the top salesman; between the principal and the best teacher; between Miller Huggins, the manager, and Babe Ruth, the best baseball player...

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

Its complicated, on one level. On another, its the same old stupid story – we aren’t enlightened. We disagree, fall in love, and hate eachother, the whole spectrum of human experience. We have differences of...

and those who are well meaning assume others are too, and keep arguing logically, keep producing more studies, keep expecting an academic debate, all the time assuming that the issue at hand is the truth...

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

So does nobody care about Ireland?””Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James.” He nodded thoughtfully. “The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a...

There is a need for objective justification and demonstration of fairness, in handling labour grievances, working its way through internal negotiation, with conscious efforts to recalibrate equilibrium between both, employer an employee. (In consonance with...

Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of...

We’ve been officially reassured at a high level that Russia will not be drawn into the conflict into the Balkans.

They are next-door neighbors with a past of conflict and a present of bitter mistrust,

to thwart the wagers that wish to see an internal Palestinian conflict.

When the current reality creates conflict, distance is often a solution.

I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but...

I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or...

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

I will follow anyone…And remind everyone…Of enslaved Yazidi women…Raped…And forced…To donate blood to ISIS men…

Suppression of love or hatred creates conflict.

blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines...

So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that...

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

The time we need in order to heal our wounds and finally manifest our deepest dreams is only as long as the gap between two thoughts. These are thoughts in polarity, such as separation and...

But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we’re only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come...

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

President Yeltsin has said that the Russians do not plan to get involved in this conflict, and since that is a very reasonable tack for the Russians to take, we take him at his word...

Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don’t tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren’t...

Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to...

CONFLICT is the unhealthy fruit from the tree of MISUNDERSTANDINGwhich was once a seed of INSECURITIES thatsprout from the isolation of MIND,sipping slowly the liquid of PRIDE…

And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is mirrored in the pattern of grotesque raping in areas of outright conflict from...

Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it.