Quotes About Resolution

The cause of human conflict is simple: one person dehumanizes another. One side sees the other side as unworthy. As long as people who disagree perceive each other this way, even the simplest details cannot be negotiated. But let each person bring to the other the attitude of respect and acceptance, and even difficult details can be resolved.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

And in the end

If anybody tried to threaten me I would simply look him in the eye and ask him in a firm but friendly voice, "Why?" The bully would have no choice but to engage me verbally, and this made violence next to impossible. I learned that it is very difficult to fight someone with whom you are already talking.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

She had lost her innocent vision of justice early in her career, and had come to understand that the laws had not been created to resolve problems but in order to prolong quarrels indefinitely.

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

The ego wants resolution, wants to control impermanence, wants something secure and certain to hold on to. It freezes what is actually fluid, it grasps at what is in motion, it tries to escape the beautiful truth of the fully alive nature of everything. As a result, we feel dissatisfied, haunted, threatened. We spend much of our time in a cage created by our own fear of discomfort.

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.

Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.