"Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity..."

-- Johan Galtung

#Creativity Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”
“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.”
“In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.”
“Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.”
“People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.”
“Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.”
“I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.”
“They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.”

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