Quotes About Family Conflict

#1. Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it's a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#2. Next time you pray any kind of prayer, whether it be for the resolution of healing, or for a house, or for a car, or for a husband, or for a family conflict, or for a solution to a problem, tell Him he can say yes or no. Because in the end, you're a winner. Every time.

Bo Sanchez

#3. When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.

Dalai Lama

#4. The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#5. Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Jessica Savitch

#6. Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts.

Ezra Taft Benson

#7. The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

Janet Mock

#8. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Lao-Tzu

#9. My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

Meg Ryan

#10. The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

Christopher Lasch

#11. It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

Bear Grylls

#12. I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Alan Ball

#13. On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

Madonna Ciccone

#14. A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#15. I should have told you long ago how much I love you, but those fleeting moments of opportunity passed all too quickly. Before I knew it, you had gone to your eternity. Nevertheless, I want to tell you now that I love you . . . still!

Terry L. Mills

#16. There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

Salman Rushdie

#17. Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict.

DeVon Franklin

#18. Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

Kofi Annan

#19. Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#20. Rebellion, waywardness, lack of discipline, confusion, and conflict prevent happy relationships within the home. But God is interested in your family, your marriage, your children. He shows us the ideals and the goals for the family.

Billy Graham

#21. I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family ... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration ... of work, family, self, community.

Padmasree Warrior

#22. No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.

Colin Powell

#23. I am the king. You're the knight sitting at my round table. That's the nature of our relationship when it comes to war or other conflict resolution in this family.

Sarah Black

#24. You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

Dermot Mulroney

#25. the subject described himself as a pacifist who can't tolerate conflict. He claims to be an outsider in the family, ignored unless he is the object of criticism.

Jere Krakoff

#26. My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like it was no big deal.

Erin Merryn

#27. All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

Vivian Amis

#28. During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

Madeleine L'Engle

#29. Mindfulness won't ensure you'll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won't enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.

Sharon Salzberg

#30. Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Bill Cosby

#31. I think that covering a conflict that is personal, that influences your very own, your family, gives you some perspectives.As a journalist, when I fly in, I care about every place I go including conflicts.

Shaul Schwarz

#32. However, family and friends can be in a financial or emotional conflict of interest with the welfare of an incompetent patient.

Edmund D. Pellegrino

#33. My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

Amanda Donohoe

#34. Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone's friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

Shannon L. Alder