Marcus Aurelius Quotes

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

The only safe way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation.

I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

Whenever best friends get into a fight, I feel like it is always quick to resolve.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.