When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.

Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.

Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.

Change does not take time - it takes commitment.

Our lives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we do with conflict that makes the difference.

Conflict isn't negative, it just is.

It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first.

It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.

It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

Quitting is leading too.

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.