“Conflict reflects what each person most needs to learn in that moment.” - Kenneth Cole
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. it took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” - Mary Oliver
“Peace cannot be built on a foundation of fear.” - Marshall Rosenberg
“‘You have peace,’ the old woman said, ‘when you make it with yourself.’” - Mitch Albom
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” - The Dalai Lama
“We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.” - Melody Beattie
“When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.” - Nelson Mandela
“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” - Max Lucado
“Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.”
- Thomas Merton
“Conflict is resolved not through compromise but through invention.” - Mary Parker Follett
”People are not here to meet your expectations.”
- Leo Buscaglia
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” - Rumi
“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” - Marshall Rosenberg
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” - Jesus of Nazareth
“Do the best you can, until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.” - Maya Angelou
“Practice kindness all day to everybody, and you will realize you already live in heaven now.” - Jack Kerouac
“I shall pass through the world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” - Stephen Grellet
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” - Jack Kornfield