Jean de la Bruyere 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 treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

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.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

By exercising our moral leadership, we can transform a generation of potential enemies into a generation of friends.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

When you say, 'I'm sorry,' you turn people into your allies, even your partners.

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

We must take our friends as they are.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand... there is suffering.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

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

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.