Harmonious Interactions Quotes

I think the most important thing is that everybody is happy creating, and doing what they want to do, and have really great relationships with each other.

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.

It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent with friends was consumed by disagreement, then there was no room for the essence of friendship, which was a sharing of the world. And that sharing involved seeing things the same way, or at least seeing things through the eyes of the friend.

I'm not out here to be beefing with nobody.

In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

It would just be nice if everybody would be nice.

I ain't got no beef with nobody.

One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.