Personal, Family, and Organizational Peacemaking
Personal, Family, and Organizational Peacemaking
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“The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.” Chinese Proverb
“If people around you are spiteful, callous, and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg for their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.” Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
"Nine-tenths of the serious controversies which arise in life result from misunderstanding, result from one man not knowing the facts which to the other man seem important, or otherwise failing to appreciate his point
of view.” Louis D. Brandeis
"One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe." Percival
“What everyone needs is a good listening to.” Bumper sticker
“The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.” Joseph Sobran
“It is important to remember that others’ ways of talking to you is partly a reaction to your style, just as your style with them is partly a reaction to their style with you.” Deborah Tannen
“Routinely people fail to interpret what you say in the way you intend and do not mean what you understand them to say.” Roger Fisher
“Isn’t uncanny how we’re attracted to the very people who trigger overblown responses from us.” Elayne Savage
“It is our relationship to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another ashore.” Christian Bovee
“The same sun that melts the ice hardens the clay.” Anonymous
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sails.” William Arthur Ward
"We have only one person to blame, and that is each other." Barry Black, New York Ranger, on who started a brawl during the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup
playoffs.
"There may be a hundred things you know about a person—all of them bad. But there may be just one thing you don't know, which if you did know, would completely change your opinion." A Nigerian Christian "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow." Chinese Proverb "If you want to win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend." Abraham Lincoln "There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them." Phyllis Bottome "A great nation is like a great man; when he makes a mistake he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teacher." Lao Tsu "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." Thomas Carlyle
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