Quotes About Resolution

Healing begins with your saying these simple words to your adversary, yes, to your enemy: You're hurting, I know. I'm hurting, too. Let's try to find a way.

the bile rising in her throat. Was it over? That easy?

The farther you move from the core of the problem, the faster the situation spins out of control.

I sat down and remembered a saying Old Aunt used to tell me whenever I complained that I had been wrongly accused: "Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head." Don't settle one trouble only to make a bigger one.

There was never the right time for me to declare we should be together for the rest of our lives when you were yelling at me that you would never sleep in the same bed as me again.

I resented the easy supposition of all's well that ends well.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Once I had made my mind up, I could see nothing but the advantages.

unhappiness very much. Few can cope with the idea of depression divorced from external reality. Many would prefer to think that if you're suffering, it's with reason and subject to logical resolution. A

are based on the principle that naming something is a good way to subdue it, and that knowing the source of a problem is useful in solving that problem.

It makes no since to fight a war that is already won.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

If you could change one thing about this world, what would it be?" Mrs. Peabody asked her. "It would be wars," Myriah replied seriously. "I would stop them. I would say to the people who were making the wars, 'Now you stop that. You settle this problem yourselves like grown-ups. Our children want peace.' That's what I'd change.

I pushed my chair back and stood up. Look, I invented the Baby-Sitters Club. The whole idea was to work together, human-to-human contact, over the phone and in meetings. If you don't have that, you don't have a club. Period. Kristy...., Mary Anne pleaded. But I'd heard enough. I picked up my tray and walked away. I had completely lost my appetite.

How did people deal with a situation like this? Maybe they'd make Mr. Nicholls promise never to do it again. Maybe he'd have to go to counseling. In any case, I knew things would start to change for the better as soon as Mom and Mrs. Nicholls talked.

I want to confront these issues head-on. I wish other Muslims would confront them as well, and have conversations with the likes of you and Ayaan, because that's what's needed. It's how we will resolve all this.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

It's the right decision, Crawford.

I married you to stop the bloodshed, and you keep killing. When will it be enough- when?

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill—and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

I usually know what the crisis of the book is going to be, though I don't know how I'm going to get there. I try to make it bad enough that I don't know how I'm going to get out of it. And when I get there, I have to get out of it. I just get myself geared up, and I write every day and see what happens.

It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I'm sorry, to say it's okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew?

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks! -Remy