Joy Behar Quotes

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

My whole thing is this - and this is how I am in real life - if you start talking to me crazy, I'm not engaging in that. I'm just not saying anything.

Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.

Return animosity with virtue.

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

I think dealing with mean girls is just a part of life. I never really took people like that too seriously.

If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.

No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

I'm pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.

I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

It is not good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace