Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
You prove your worth with your actions,
not with your mouth.
- Jean Paul
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
- George Clooney
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
- Booth Tarkington
What we have to do...
is to find a way to celebrate our diversity
and debate our differences
without fracturing our communities.
- Hillary Clinton
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why should it impede your happiness for others to have differing views on politics or religion?
for others to paint their houses purple or grow asparagus in place of a grassy lawn?
for others to dress, mingle, celebrate, or dine in their own manner?
The path to happiness is to live your life joyfully in your own way
and to support and encourage others to do likewise.
Further reading: Listen, Really Listen
Opinions
Arguing
Disagreement
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
jlh @ sail7 .com
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