7 Quotes About Common Ground

Finding common ground with others is vital to a healthy relationship. Anytime you find yourself disagreeing with someone, chances are there’s a little bit of common ground there. In most cases, it takes a little effort to find that commonality. But once you do, it will make the conversation easier and more fulfilling for both of you Read more

These quotes about finding common ground will help you figure out what areas of agreement and disagreement you have with your partner and make the relationship stronger.

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Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away.. and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.. be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.. and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. Rainer Maria Rilke
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There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option. Aberjhani
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As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become. Teresa R. Funke
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Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings. Aberjhani
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We .. . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting. G.M. Young
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I'm not stupid and I'm not brainy. I just lack execution sometimes. I'm more of a "I should have said that" kind of gal. But there will be other days when I'll have a comback that'll knock ya flat and you knows it brov! ha-ha! Ellie Williams