Conflict Management Quotes

To neither suppress our feelings nor be caught by them

"To neither suppress our feelings nor be caught by them, but to understand them-that is the art."

Jack Kornfield

They will never forget how you made them feel

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
Carl W. Buechner

Care is the glue that keeps relationships together

"Care is the glue that keeps relationships together once the novelty has worn off. This is as true in organizational life as in the personal domain."

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer

We have to become more conscious of our feeling-world

"We have to become more conscious of our feeling-world. By learning to identify the ‘emotional baggage’ and manage our feeling-world reactions, we can view life based on current information instead of being held captive by our past."

Doc Childre

The key is accept emotions directly

"The key is to not resist or rebel against emotions or to try to get around them by devising all sorts of tricks; but to accept them directly, as they are."

Takahisa Kora

We discover the depth of our own compassion

"When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion."

Marshall B. Rosenberg

When you live in reaction

"When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to."

N. Smith

Empathy feels these thoughts

“Empathy feels these thoughts: your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.”

William Arthur Ward

If you are distressed by anything external

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment"

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and the life he leads."
Albert Camus