Quotes About Resolution

There are an incalculable—even infinite—number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness. Expecting it to be a singular action—motivated by the sheer imperative to move on and forget—can be more damaging than the original feelings of anger. Accepting forgiveness as pluralistic and as an ongoing, individualized process opens us up to realize the role that our own needs play in conflict resolution.

How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.

Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won't single-highhandedly help you resolve them.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

And anger is never added to anger. It multiplies.

I declared a truce with her, at least within myself. Or maybe it's only a partial truce because a half-truce is really just a surrender, right?

It actually dawned on me that I don't fight. I just kill whatever annoys me, and it's over. (Savitar)

The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man goodness, the miser with generosity, and the liar with truth. (Indian proverb) It sounds good, doesn't it? If only people and life were that effing easy. Trust me, it takes more than a friendly biscuit to tame a hungry lion. And it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's war. (Savitar)

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn't end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

Well, then, if I admit I know who you are and really couldn't care less will that assuage your damaged manhood enough that we can get past this and move on to something that ends with your giving me a sandwich? (Leta)

Don't you have something to do? (Sin) If not for the fact it would result in your breaking every bone in my body and making me cry for Mommy, I'd be calling some cops. As it stands, I think my neck is best served by trying to talk sense into you. (Kish)

You mean you don't know? (Wulf) No. In fact, I'm thinking right now that one, if not both of us, needs to put down the crack pipe and start this night over. (Cassandra)

Perhaps I should sit up front with the driver and give you two enough space to beat the crap out of each other and settle this like grown adolescents. (Geary)

Since when does a dog care about what it humps? (Dev) I could go so low with that that even the gutter would envy us, but…I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to provoke a fight with me so that you can legally turn me away. I really, really want to give you that fight, too, but I have to see Sasha and it can't wait. Sorry. We'll have to hump and fight later. (Fury)

What are you doing here? (Terri) I'll tell you if you tell me why you're here. (Nathan) No. Leave. (Terri) No. You leave. (Nathan) What are we? Four? (Terri)

Stoner lowered the gun to Carlos's crotch.) Should we continue splitting hairs? (Stoner)

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.

You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.