Quotes About Conflict

When you have No Deal as an option in your mind, you feel liberated because you have no need to manipulate people, to push your own agenda, to drive for what you want. You can be open. You can really try to understand the deeper issues underlying the positions.

Double-mindedness, having two conflicting motives or interests, inevitably sets us at war with ourselves—and an internal civil war often breaks out into war with others. The opposite of double-mindedness is self-unity or integrity. We achieve integrity through the dedication of ourselves to selfless service of others.

When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

When we are dependent on the person with whom we are in conflict, both need and conflict are compounded. Love-hate over-reactions, fight-or-flight tendencies, withdrawal, aggressiveness, bitterness, resentment, and cold competition are some of the usual results. When these occur, we tend to fall even further back on background tendencies and habits in an effort to justify and defend our own behavior and we attack our spouse's. Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need

Rebellion is a knot of the heart, not of the mind.

The greatest battles we fight are in the silent chambers of our own souls.

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

followed, almost any perception problem can be solved. So can most credibility problems, if one or both of the parties involved will realize that, at root, it is a perception problem

Friend centeredness can also focus exclusively on one person, taking on some of the dimensions of marriage. The emotional dependence on one individual, the escalating need/conflict spiral, and the resulting negative interactions can grow out of friend centeredness.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

change, where each is confessing the other's "sins," where each is trying to shape up the other. I've seen labor-management disputes where people spend tremendous amounts of time and energy trying to create legislation that would force people to act as though the foundation of trust were really there.

to get things done. When fear replaces cooperation, both people involved become more illogical and defensive.

The cause of almost all relationship difficulties is rooted in conflicting or ambiguous expectations around roles and goals.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological.

That is Lord Foul's way in all things—to force his foes to become that which they most hate, and to destroy that which they most love.

For convenience, history is often viewed as a conflict between the instinct for order and the impulse toward chaos. Both are necessary: both are manifestations of the need to survive. Without order, nothing exists: without chaos, nothing grows. And yet the struggle between them sheds more blood than any other war.

He seemed to need conflicts. His sense of his own uselessness required an outlet.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever BOOK ONE: LORD FOUL'S BANE BOOK TWO: THE ILLEARTH WAR BOOK THREE: THE POWER THAT PRESERVES The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant BOOK ONE: THE WOUNDED LAND BOOK TWO: THE ONE TREE BOOK THREE: WHITE GOLD WIELDER The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant BOOK ONE: THE RUNES OF THE EARTH BOOK TWO: FATAL REVENANT BOOK THREE: AGAINST ALL THINGS ENDING DAUGHTER OF REGALS AND OTHER TALES

Guns might be called the hardware of this equation of violence. Emotions were the software—and just as important when deciding whether or not to pick up a firearm.

More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us.

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.

Kill them all.  God will know his own.

debating with the devil had never been productive for anyone.