Mediation Quotes

• The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Alternatives, Conflict

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Sobriety, Passive Aggressive

  Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Neighbors And Friends, Neighbors Friends, Lawyer

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Fear

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Ignorance, Profound, Justice

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• The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Evil, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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  You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

  Mick Jagger

  Desire, Trying, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mick Jagger from Jun 15, 2012

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• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

  Max Lucado

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I always hold out hope. Mediation is an opportunity for each side to present their case, and for us to get back to the table again.

  Ron Weber

  Opportunity, Meditation, Tables

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• Never cut what you can untie.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Cutting, Interesting

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

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• Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, Meditation, Might

  Idries Shah (1988). “Caravan of Dreams”, p.229, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Unity, Body

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• Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

  Patanjali

  Progress, Trying, Hardest

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• You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

  Justin Bieber

  Trying, Lucky, Needs

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• Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Being Yourself, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Reality, Meditation

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.21, Vintage

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• I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Focus, Creative

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

  Robert Townsend

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, World

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• Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Eye, Two Sides

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