Antony Starr Quotes

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

To be honest, the Nidahas Trophy has taught me too many things. Actually, I learnt to how to stay neutral after that.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've got the emotional conflict within any group that you're not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

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

I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level, where they are neither playing the victim nor creating victims, but just participating in calm, adult behavior. Because an awful lot of churches just aren't there at adult Christianity, this seems to be the norm anymore.

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing