“To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.”

“Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.”

“It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal.”

“most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.”

“Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.”

“life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to do.”