Douglas Kennedy Quotes

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

It's important to mend ties after a fight.

An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.

I always say, you're going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge builder.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.

You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.

I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson.

Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we'll never find them through violence.

My boyfriend and I like to fight a lot. I have a lot of problems. He has a lot of problems. Somehow, we always work them out and find a way back to each other.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

When we have fights in our family, they don't end with an apology. You make up by getting back to normal. Like you'll call and say, 'You want to go shopping?'

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.