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I cried and cried. But then I had to stop. One thing about me was that when I was having a serious wish session, I tried never to wish impossible wishes. I might have wished for sixteen crayons instead of eight, but even when I was little, I never wished for a thousand crayons, because I knew a thousand different crayons did not exist. So on that forty-ninth day I did not wish Lynn could be alive again, because I knew she was gone.
— Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn’t even know it, or it wouldn’t matter.
— Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross
Wishing gets you nothing.
— Carrie Anne Noble
The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul.Hats can do the same thing.
— Charles Martin, Where the River Ends
When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.
— A.W. Tozer
Life is not what you wish it to be , rather it’s what you make it.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
You will find what you look for.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The whole thing could have been uncomfortable if all your wishes were to be drowned in to the sea or passed through a heart of a lion that shed not the innocent blood.
— Auliq Ice
Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for!
— Stephen Richards
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work to better than wishes on stars.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire.
— Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
My shooting star wish would truthfully be to never leave your side. To be the one who will be there to encourage you in all your hopes and dreams. Be there if you fail so I can pick you back up and never let anything bad happen to you again.
— Christina Marie Morales
What do you know?”“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”“What do you want, then?”“What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I'd make it right before the last speck of light vanished.
— Michael  Jackson, Moonwalk
I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.
— William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams
But those coins are wishes! You’re stealing other people’s wishes!”The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. “If you have money to waste on wishes, you don’t need the wishes as badly as I need the money.
— Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers
I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.
— William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams
Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.
— Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.
— Michael Ende
I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.
— William Steig, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a field of brilliant blue flowers- the bluebells Joanna had so loved- and at that moment he'd willingly have bartered all his tomorrows for but one yesterday.
— Sharon Kay Penman, Falls the Shadow
The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, "a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection".
— A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
Wondered to see, these luscious Flowers'' ''Blossoming everywhere, like drops of Shower'' ''WISH! My ecstasy would has that Power'' ''Days come true! those for me, are so Far'' ~Samar Sudha
— Samar Sudha
Haven't you ever wanted something you couldn't have?
— Tracy Guzeman, The Gravity of Birds
You must return to the fairy cave while children sleep. Fairies only exist if children believe in Fairyland. If you return after they wake from their dreams, you could remain frozen between two worlds for all eternity.
— Caz Greenham, The Adventures of Eric Seagull 'Story-Teller': Book 2 A Fairy's Wish
If a fairy makes a wish to leave the fairy cave, she must return to the cave every year and always on her birthday to live as a tiny fairy on that day. If she fails to obey the Fairy Queen’s Rules, she’ll turn to fairy dust, forever.
— Caz Greenham, The Adventures of Eric Seagull 'Story-Teller': Book 2 A Fairy's Wish
There is a very good organization called "Make a Wish Foundation" that helps make a dying child's wishes come true. People go out of their way and work together to create an unbelievable lasting memory for a deserving person. What just dawned on me was:Why do we wait until someone is dying in order to do that?We have the opportunity to do this everyday for many, many, many people over our lifetime. It doesn't have to be a really big wish, small wishes add up fast.Imagine how much better the world would be if we all granted each other small wishes that came true every day. Find someone today and implement the "Make a Wish" concept in your life.Watch what happens.
— JohnA Passaro
Lily knew then that Sheen was right. She would have a horse one day, but not for a long time. When she did, she would have control over what she could and could not have, although maybe she could right now, to an extent. She might not be able to have a horse, but she could choose to have Sheen as a friend, if he was willing to be her friend.
— Jesse Haubert, We Found a Horse and Other Stories
Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers. While many are being answered, what we really want to know is how we can make our lives better.
— Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.
— Lana Del Rey
I know women are supposed to stand on their own and all. I get that. But every once in a while it doesn't hurt to wish for a fairy godmother, a little magic, and a happy ending.
— Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames
I wished for you," he whispered, so quietly that I struggled to hear."What did that feel like? I've never made a wish in my life." My voice was as shaky as my words were stupid."Everybody wishes for something, Charli."I put just enough space between us to be able to look at him. "Not me. I've saved them all up. Birthday candles, shooting stars, stray eyelashes...ladybugs. I've saved hem all up. I figure I'm owed hundreds of wishes now.
— G.J. Walker-Smith
I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.
— John Barrowman
As my mom used to say,"If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit.
— Cat Adams, The Eldritch Conspiracy
Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.
— Debbie Macomber, Twenty Wishes
...a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?
— Melissa Senate, The Love Goddess' Cooking School
What can a fallen star wish for, but it fulfills other's wishes, is it not?
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Sincere wishes come true.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible
— Adina Rishe Gewirtz, Zebra Forest
we wish you everything you wish yourself' Jurgen said.'What do you wish yourself?' Birgit asked.I felt silly 'I don't really have any specific wishes''a new old man perhaps?' Juliet said playfully'but please, not just any old man!' I said.'of course not just any old man! The man with whom it'll all be different.
— Eva Heller, Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders
If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!
— Stephen Colbert
I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was."Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you."That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked."Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.
— Orson Scott Card, Treason
If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.
— Dalene Matthee, Fiela's Child
Winners don’t think defeat. They think victory.
— Benjamin Suulola
Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.
— Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
When it comes to obeying your elders including parents, think once that they must be true for they have a whole lot of experience of life but think twice because they have the experience of ‘their’ life. Obey thoughtfully.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
Don't just think, ACT!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Don’t become manipulated by the illusion of who you think you are, or who you think you should be.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
All the tears shed in the world, where do they go? she wondered. If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched, drought-stricken fields in Gopal's village and beyond. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss
— Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
A global mind thinks about interconnections and interdependencies and their impacts and consequences, both on a local and a global level.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Thinking differently is the key to improvement.
— Eraldo Banovac
A benchmarking mind is an “interpreter” mind which can bridge the gaps.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Never ever care what people think about YOU, but be aware of what kind of ENERGY you create in them through your acts!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Never ever care what people think about you, but what kind of energy you create in them matters the most. So act sensibly!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
— Eraldo Banovac
A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Do not be discouraged by the disappointments you meet. Don't ever loose hope because, you missed opportunities. Disappointment and missing opportunities are all essential components of life. They give us the reasons to reason and they teach us the best lessons in life. They give a clear distinction between the wonder and the wander. When you meet disappointments, ponder! you may be on the great bath to that great appointment.Instead of being disappointed by disappointments, find the 'this appointment' disappointments show you. Instead of crying over missing and missed opportunities, let missing and missed opportunities miss you
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
when you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just ponder!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He who is shallow cannot think deeply.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Think innocently.Think intelligently.Think imaginatively.Think inventively.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
What we think is more important in life, is just an excuse for not trying hard enough for what is right in front of us...
— Donna M. Zadunajsky
Think honestly.Think humbly.Think honorably.Think happily.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You are what you think, not what others think of you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Think objectively.Think operationally.Think optimistically.Think outstandingly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Solitude – the space between thinking” from Cinderella In Focus.
— H.L. Balcomb
All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.
— Neil Gaiman
I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.~Shin
— Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 12
When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right
— Fiona Apple
I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can’t live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?
— Bella Andre, Come A Little Bit Closer
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
— Mark Twain
I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Allan interrupted the two brothers by saying that he had been out and about in the world and if there was one thing he had learned it was that the very biggest and apparently most impossible conflicts on earth were based on the dialogue: “You are stupid, no, it’s you who are stupid, no, it’s you who are stupid.” The solution, said Allan, was often to down a bottle of vodka together and then look ahead.
— Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.
— Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton
Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reached it, Curley bounced in."You seen a girl around here?" he demanded angrily.George said coldly, "'Bout half an hour ago maybe.""Well, what the hell was she doin'?"George stood still, watching the angry little man. He said insultingly, "She said--she was lookin' for you."Curley seemed really to see George for the first time. His eyes flashed over George, took in his height, measured his reach, looked at his trim middle. "Well, which way'd she go?" he demanded at last."I dunno," said George. "I didn't watch her go."Curley scowled at him, and turning, hurried out the door.George said, "Ya know, Lennie, I'm scared I'm gonna tangle with that bastard myself. I hate his guts. Jesus Christ! Come on. There won't be a damn thing left to eat.
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
But my brain winds and wends. Back and forth. Up and down. It feels like the county fair has inhabited my mind-- complete with sketchy rides, carnies, and sugar-amped kids crying over lost balloons. So loud and disorienting. I want it to pack up and move on to the next town. I want my mind to be an open grassy field again with crickets and dandelions.
— Laura Munson, This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
Provocation is on the opposite lane of resolution.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants
To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.
— Sengcan
A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all."The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct. At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians.So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.
— H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
Enmeshed in collective hatred and anger, each side proclaims the crimes of the other and its own righteousness, is unable to listen to the others suffering, and cannot look at the deeper roots of the conflict and how we often need our enemies in order to maintain our rigid identities. (p. 53)
— Donald Rothberg, The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World
I was hell-bent on being an effective humanitarian in Cambodia and Somalia. But a naïve fog is finally lifting. Revealed is a train wreck of illusions, the depravity of someone else's war, the futility of a competence stillborn there. To understand this you have to become this.
— Kenneth Cain, Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
There were two options—call the foul or don't—and either way, he would lose, but there was a thrill here in this moment when actual combat might have replaced the shadowboxing he'd been doing for months now with every last person he loved.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
A life without a storm would lack drama. Pounding waves of a tempestuous sea test a person’s mettle. A fearless sailor climbs the rigging and shouts out at the top of their lungs into the wind and rain whipping across their face that they will not go quietly into the good night without a fight.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.
— Jens Christian Grøndahl
The purpose of conflict is to create.
— Michael Meade
It was like a war inside me; I couldn’t even recognize all the sides. There was one that said, ‘No, this is wrong; you know it’s wrong and bad and sinful,’ and there was another that said, ‘Nothing has ever felt so right and natural and true and good,’ and another that said it was happening too fast, and another that just wanted to stop thinking altogether and fling my arms around Annie and hold her forever. There were other sides, too, but I couldn’t sort them out.
— Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary
— Patrick Lencioni, Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
A series of controlled experiments and field studies in organizations shows that when teams engage in conflict over ideas in an atmosphere of mutual respect, they develop better ideas and perform better .
— Robert I. Sutton, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring
— Patrick Lencioni, Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
I don’t think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it’s not a little uncomfortable, then it’s not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway
— Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
conflict is productive
— Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
The statement at the core of all disagreements: I’m right, you’re wrong.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Aversion to conflict will always generate conflict.
— R.A.Delmonico
It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is ‘not me’ in order to have a ‘me’. What we like has no meaning unless we know what we don’t like. Our yes has no meaning if we never say no. My chosen profession has no passion if ‘just anyone would do’. Our opinions and thoughts mean very little if there is nothing we disagree with.
— Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future
When we are wounded it's as if something is stolen from us. We adapt and accept a particular truth that sets us up to behave a certain way in the future when we are faced with a situation that reminds us of the past. What we know about ourselves becomes influenced by our perception of these events. We associate and project the qualities of those who hurt us onto others unfairly. Every situation may appear similar, but people are not. Look at the people that love you and not the reminder of ghosts.
— Shannon L. Alder
Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Try not to see it as an invitation to compete.
— Andrena Sawyer
In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.
— Kanan Makiya
Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
— Scott  Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char
Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools
— Michael Pitre, Fives and Twenty-Fives
Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.
— Larry Kramer, Faggots
I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.
— Robert Brault
If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons.
— Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
We Have a ChanceTo Save LivesIf We Don't Take ItWe May Regret ItLike We DidWith Alan Kurdi
— Widad Akreyi
I sit on it's edge, looking down at the man who feels like he just materialized out of nowhere. My head still swims with euphoria from the moment...a moment I was just in with one man whilst sleeping next to another. Suddenly feeling dirty, I pull the sheets wrapped in front of my body closer.
— E.J. Mellow, The Dreamer
As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.
— R. N. Prasher
it’s like the British in Ireland in 1916’ , says Oisir O’Dowd. ‘The repeated the ageless macho mantra, “Force is the only thing these natives understand,” so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed.
— David Mitchell
When you confront, you are trying to avoid a conflict.
— Sunday Adelaja
Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad.
— Sunday Adelaja
An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already).
— Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn’t die no matter how hard they tried.
— Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
— Widad Akreyi
I will follow anyone...And remind everyone...Of enslaved Yazidi women...Raped...And forced...To donate blood to ISIS men...
— Widad Akreyi
I shouldn’t even exist. Neither should they. What’s the difference between destroying me and destroying them?” - Lexia Graham
— Katheryn J. Avila, Reckoning
The world understood and had observed, that the parties to the armed conflict at Gaza in 2014 transgressed the ken of human rights and those who understand the subject of legal violations have already deciphered the extent of deviation of most provisions of International Humanitarian Laws (the entire chunk of laws-customary/treaty , Conventions, including the persuasive ICJ precedents), especially the grave violations of legal provisions pertaining to Civilians of war ; it has been not only transgressed but evidently disregarded by both the parties to the conflict, thus there has been a blatant abuse of the humanitarian laws…………………………….. Finally it’s for the nations across the globe to understand the consequences of strife, now that it has led to an armed conflict, further, can easily lead to world disorder, and before it begins, to find ways to put an end to it, because such a war would engulf not only the weak even the mighty, those who brandish power and the subjects alike, and none are spared from the wheels of conflict.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood of those who bear the image of God.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: “I’m right
—  you’re wrong.
Tackle issues not people. Am I trying to prove my point or improve the relationship?
— Lysa TerKeurst
In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.
— Penn Jillette
You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!
— Widad Akreyi
Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind.
— H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia
Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.
— Steven Galloway, The Confabulist
I Will Follow Anyone And Tell EveryoneHow They Abduct...And Torture ChildrenIn the Name Of Religion
— Widad Akreyi
The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
— Widad Akreyi
Violence is itself a form of political mobilisation. It is mainly directed against civilians and not at another army. The aim is to capture territory through political control rather than through military success. And political control is maintained through terror, through expulsion or elimination of those who challenge political control, especially those with a different label. Population displacement, massacres, widespread atrocities are not just side effects of war; they are a deliberate strategy for political control. The tactic is to sow the fear and hate on which exclusive identity claims rest.
— Leon Kukkuk, Letters to Gabriella: Angola's Last War for Peace, What the UN Did and Why
Most things that are true are simple. To lose weight, eat less than you burn. To reduce stress, find a job you love. To resolve conflict, be patient and peaceful. These are very, very simple in that they are complete concepts that take no more than a sentence to say. They are not, however, easy, because they must be applied consistently.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
The end of superpower patronage to client movements worldwide created a power vacuum whose inevitable results included the spread of violence and the emergence of disparate groups, ostensibly fighting in the name of ideology, religion or ethnicity, but now seeking their finance through local taxes, plunder and pillage.
— Leon Kukkuk, Letters to Gabriella: Angola's Last War for Peace, What the UN Did and Why
Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!
— K.A. Gunn, The Book of Told: Mere Words
If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.
— The Arbinger Institute, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND THANK EVERYONEWHO TRIES TO MAKEA DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVESOF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS
— Widad Akreyi
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
— Widad Akreyi
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
— Thomas Paine
There are different churches because men wanted to interpret the Bible to their favour and which conflicts with the next person's interpretation. These led to people starting different churches, that ministers what they interpret as right.
— Unarine Ramaru
WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS... IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE
— Widad Akreyi
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!
— Widad Akreyi
Success in an enterprise can be brought about, through effective leadership, which educes open communication, which in turn would contribute towards bringing down conflict levels, thus leading to higher productivity and distinguished gains, which in turn testifies about the healthy corporate culture of an organization.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
Mika: Sometimes I just feel like you don’t want to be like this with me.Letti: Like what with you? You have no idea how much I want to be with you Mika.Mika: So, why don’t I feel it?Letti: :( What do you want me to do? You want me to tell everyone online that I’m with you? You want everyone to know how much I love you?Mika: I don't care about what people know, I just care about you. I want you in my life now and in the future, but how can I continue if you don't even "belong" to me...
— Shanice Williams, Virtually Conflicted
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE...AND REMIND EVERYONE...OF THE FATE...OF THE ENSLAVED...YAZIDI WOMEN
— Widad Akreyi
SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION: GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS YAZIDI GIRLS!
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND TELL EVERYONE... THAT THIS IS HAPPENING... IN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE
— Widad Akreyi
IT’S ALL CLEARISIS INVADES YOUR SPHEREYET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEARBUT DON'T WORRYTAUSSI MELEK IS HERERESTORING LIVES NEAR
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE...AND BEG EVERYONE...TO BE A HERO... AND SAVE THE YAZIDI NATION
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEHOW THEY SPONSOR...THE KILLING OF THE YAZIDI NATION
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND THANK EVERYONE... WHO TRIES... TO BRING SMILE BACK... TO THIS WOMAN
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND REMIND EVERYONEOF THE SUFFERING...OF THE ENSLAVED...YAZIDI WOMEN
— Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE RAPE OF THE YAZIDI WOMEN
— Widad Akreyi
I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... that their fear is genuine.
— Widad Akreyi
I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women
— Widad Akreyi
Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!
— Widad Akreyi
Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is no way to escape conflict in life, and there is no way to escape peace in life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.
— Paulo Freire
CONFLICT is the unhealthy fruit from the tree of MISUNDERSTANDINGwhich was once a seed of INSECURITIES thatsprout from the isolation of MIND,sipping slowly the liquid of PRIDE...
— Robby Dumanon
Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Bare essentials. Like packing for paradise when you know you’re boarding the barge to hell.
— Suenammi Richards, Charlotte's Chance
Conflict makes people feel alive.
— H.W. Vivian
When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.
— Widad Akreyi
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
— Grove Karl Gilbert
The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wile beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. The signal was given, the barriers were down. As has so often happened in the history of man, permission was tacitly granted for acts of violence and plunder, even for murder, if they were carried out in the name of higher interests, according to established rules, and against a limited number of men of a particular type and belief....In a few minutes the business quarter, based on centuries of tradition, was wiped out. It is true that there had always been concealed enmities and jealousies and religious intolerance, coarseness and cruelty, but there had also been courage and fellowship and a feeling for measure and order, which restrained all these instincts within the limits of the supportable and, in the end, calmed them down and submitted them to the general interest of life in common. Men who had been leaders in the commercial quarter for forty years vanished overnight as if they had all died suddenly, together with the habits, customs and institutions which they represented.p. 11
— Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native Countrey and mournfull state of England.That either part or partie is most right in his owne eye his Cause Right his Cariage Right, his Argumts Right his Answeres Right is as wofully and constantly true as the former. And experience tells us that when the God of peace hath taken peace from the Earth one sparke of Action word or Cariage is too too powrefull to kindle such a fire as burns up Families Townes Cities Armies, Navies Nations and Kingdomes.[Letter of Roger Williams to Town of Providence, March 28, 1648]
— Roger Williams, The Correspondence of Roger Williams
We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate,' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens.
— Minette Walters
The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. The signal was given, the barriers were down. As has so often happened in the history of man, permission was tacitly granted for acts of violence and plunder, even for murder, if they were carried out in the name of higher interests, according to established rules, and against a limited number of men of a particular type and belief....In a few minutes the business quarter, based on centuries of tradition, was wiped out. It is true that there had always been concealed enmities and jealousies and religious intolerance, coarseness and cruelty, but there had also been courage and fellowship and a feeling for measure and order, which restrained all these instincts within the limits of the supportable and, in the end, calmed them down and submitted them to the general interest of life in common. Men who had been leaders in the commercial quarter for forty years vanished overnight as if they had all died suddenly, together with the habits, customs and institutions which they represented.p. 11
— Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
I violently dislike you,' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind.
— Kate Johnson, The UnTied Kingdom
Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence.
— Widad Akreyi
That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native Countrey and mournfull state of England.That either part or partie is most right in his owne eye his Cause Right his Cariage Right, his Argumts Right his Answeres Right is as wofully and constantly true as the former. And experience tells us that when the God of peace hath taken peace from the Earth one sparke of Action word or Cariage is too too powrefull to kindle such a fire as burns up Families Townes Cities Armies, Navies Nations and Kingdomes.[Letter of Roger Williams to Town of Providence, August 31, 1648]
— Roger Williams, The Correspondence of Roger Williams
So it's a strife here, in a way, between position—between the CEO and the top salesman; between the principal and the best teacher; between Miller Huggins, the manager, and Babe Ruth, the best baseball player who ever lived; between the person who can really do it, and the person who is in charge. Those are incommensurable excellences, and then and now they often come into conflict. So here—that is the rage within the rage, the conflict within the conflict, that Homer is interested in chronicling.
— Timothy B. Shutt, Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: Approaching the Epic in Literature
Do not fear the conflict, do not flee it. Where there is no struggle, there is no virtue; where faith and love are not tempted, it is not possible to be sure whether they are really present. They are proved and revealed in adversity, that is, in difficult and grievous circumstances, both outward and inward - during sickness, sorrow, or privations
— John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ: Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God: Extracts from the Diary of St. John of Kronstadt
Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.
— Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
How do you stop conflict without conflict?
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.
— Suzette Boon, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
It appears, according to the reported facts, that the electric conflict is not restricted to the conducting wire, but that it has a rather extended sphere of activity around it .. the nature of the circular action is such that movements that it produces take place in directions precisely contrary to the two extremities of a given diameter. Furthermore, it seems that the circular movement, combined with the progressive movement in the direction of the length of the conjunctive wire, should form a mode of action which is exerted as a helix around this wire as an axis.
— Hans Christian Ørsted
No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl swiftly threw off her dress and let her hair down. Then she quickly sat at the table in her petticoat and white bodice to write a letter like Tatyana's.'I love you,' she wrote, 'but you don't love me, you don't love me!'Having written this, she laughed.She was only sixteen and had never loved anyone yet. She knew that Gorny (an army officer) and Gruzdyov (a student) were both in love with her, but now, after the opera, she wanted to doubt their love. To be unloved and miserable: what an attractive idea! There was something beautiful, touching and romantic about A loving B when B wasn't interested in A. Onegin was attractive in not loving at all, while Tatyana was enchanting because she loved greatly. Had they loved equally and been happy they might have seemed boring.("After The Theatre")
— Anton Chekhov
The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military tactics. Likewise, they would have been surprised to see the Ping-fa military metaphor—an inspired teaching device—come to be seen as the message and not the medium.
— David G. Jones
Most parents hate to experience conflict, are deeply troubled when it occurs, and are quite confused about how to handle it constructively. Actually, it would be a rare relationship if over a period of time one person's needs did not conflict with the other's. When any two people (or groups) coexist, conflict is bound to occur just because people are different, think differently, have different needs and wants that sometimes do not match.
— Thomas Gordon, Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.
— Suzette Boon, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.
— J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move
— Emily Giffin
War – conflict where people are made to kill to live. Caused by less than 1% of a population – and experienced by the rest.
— Anthony   North
... mother seemed happy because the school yard where Rafik would spend his recesses was surrounded by a high stone wall. She'd recently started talking about 'safety' in a way that made Liyana jumpy. Liyana never thought about safety unless someone else brought it up. She didn't WANT to think about it either. SHE WANTED TO LIVE IN AN UNLOCKED WORLD
— Naomi Shibab Nye