“If forgiveness and its sometimes-appropriate aim of reconciliation are predicated on truth, and made possible by forbearance rather than revenge, then developing and expressing empathy for the offending person is the third element. Empathy is rooted in the realization that the one who hurt us remains human and needs our kindness. Empathy recognizes that at some point we may have done to someone else the very thing we are now trying to transcend.”
Donald Shriver
"When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion."
Marshall B. Rosenberg
“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”
Garth Brooks
"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame."
Thomas á Kempis
“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope.”
Stephen Ambrose
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
Paulo Freire
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
Lou Holtz
"We often think of peace as the absence of war; that if the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we would make new bombs."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Our very life depends on everything's recurring til we answer from within."
Robert Frost
“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.”
Albert Einstein
"To belittle is to be little."
Unknown
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."
Albert Camus
"Do unto others as they'd like done unto them."
Dr. Tony Alessandra
"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom"
Victor Frankl
"A concept that is deeply ingrained in biology is competition. This is often described as the driving force of evolution...However, there is as much cooperation in biology as there is competition. Mutualism and symbiosis, organisms living in a state of mutual dependency...are an equally universal feature of the biological realm. Why not argue that cooperation is the great source of innovation in evolution?"
James Goodwin
"Take your life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame."
Erica Jong
“The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.”
Sun Tzu
"All resistance reflects an unmet need, and is a request for authentic communication."
Ken Cloke
“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.”
Albert Einstein
“Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.”
Daisaku Ikeda