“It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.” GivingImportantRealizingViewsPlanetsConflictNewsViolentPercentages Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.” EnoughBigsEarthRealizingConflictOperationsAfar Author:Yuri Gagarin
“I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write about, and that rule number one of creative writing is you have to have conflict. But if you write about yourself mostly, then if you don't have conflict, then you create it. And the older I get, the more I realize that that's not a very smart way to do this. Not to say I'm the most self destructive person on earth, but it's easy to do.” IfsWayWritingKindPersonsSelfSchoolEarthEasyRealizingNumbersCreativeConflictSmartDestructiveAbout YourselfThrowingCreative WritingVansCliffsSelf DestructiveVery SmartSelf Destruct Author:John Fullbright
“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.” PeopleHumansWellsMaySelfHelpingPainDesireDiesOpportunityGrowsRealizingAcceptingLordDyingExampleLike YouConflictCrossesEndureAcceptedHuman LifeTortureEach DayDaily LifeResurrectionAgonySelf CenteredCrucifixionRebuff Author:Mother Teresa
“What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.” ThinkingWantMomentsSufferingCausesRealizingFailingConflictHappeningsCuresResistingInterpersonal Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“Throughout history, religious differences have divided men and women from their neighbors and have served as justification for some of humankind's bloodiest conflicts. In the modern world, it has become clear that people of all religions must bridge these differences and work together, to ensure our survival and realize the vision of peace that all faiths share.” PeopleMenWorldTogetherRealizingDifferencesReligiousVisionClearShareModernConflictSurvivalMen And WomenNeighborBridgesWorking TogetherDividedHumankindJustificationModern WorldReligious Differences Author:Prince Hassan bin Talal
“We hear a lot about theological justifications for the conflicts, but very little about the scientific evidence, which in no way supports them. The time period in which Moses was leading his people out of Egypt, into the Promised Land, the Promised Land was Egypt. We know that. Archaeological records are very clear. The Egyptians were avid bureaucrats even in those days and kept very scrupulous records. I think it's important for us to realize this conflict is built on a legend. It has no scientific support.” PeopleThinkingImportantRealizingSupportConflictEvidenceJustificationMosesTheological Author:Lawrence Wright
“We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.” ThinkingKnowsFightingThreeRealizingBornCasesKnow HowTakenPiecesGenerationsFeminismBattleConflictSittingSuitsMemorableTorchesYounger GenerationDisgusted Author:Erma Bombeck
“The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!” MenPastRealizingSecretCitiesExistenceSeaConflictWoodsShipsEnjoymentOwnersRulersConcealedDeerRobbersSlopesUnchartedFruitfulness Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.” WorldDifferentMatterReasonRealizingCommonRaceFocusConflictPercentNo Matter WhatComplicatedGenderBackgroundsInabilityContentious Book:Every Day Source: Every Day
“Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.” IfsThinkingPainCausesWaitingRealizingGoneConflictDelightDustSettlingFragileUnbearableAstonishingX MenLife Going On Author:Joss Whedon
“An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.” PlayActorsRealizingInterestingActingWrittenTroubleTaughtDramaConflictPerformancesExtraordinaryUnusualClimax Author:Michael Shurtleff
“Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveProblemHandsAgeDifficultRealizingCreationInvolvedConflictEthicsTasksAnd LoveDifficultyBoundsAbandonEthicalInspirational LoveReverenceHumankindVeilsConfinedImplicationsBoundlessBelieve In LoveDifficult Tasks Author:Albert Schweitzer
“More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.” LongDoeWarHappensIndividualUnderstandingRealizingViolencePolicyConflictStandingCommunicateSolveCyclesResolveResolutionMakersWin WinImplementingPolicy MakersLocalityCycle Of Violence Author:Scilla Elworthy