Conflict quotations

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◆ Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone's pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ 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.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ 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.

- David Levithan99

◆ In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

- Thomas Stephen Szasz99

◆ 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.

- Dorothy Thompson99

◆ I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

- Donzella Michele Malone99

◆ When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

- Fiona Apple99

◆ Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ I've always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can't love be simple? Why can't it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can't live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?

- Bella Andre99

◆ Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

- L. Ron Hubbard99

◆ 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.

- Criss Jami99

◆ In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In the latter, it only adds to the unconsciousness and inflames the conflict. (73)

- Jean-Yves Leloup99

◆ The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...

- Lynne Reid Banks99

◆ Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with himself.

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib99

◆ Usually the person you argue with the most, is the person you love the most.

- Anurag Prakash Ray99