Contention Quote by The School of Life

“If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important…

— Chris Prentiss

“Conflicts in relationships are as natural as breathing. While conflicts lead to healthy relationships, they can throttle us if they are not addressed at…

— Balroop Singh

“It’s easy to slip into guardedness and close ourselves off from the world when dealing with the messiness involved in navigating expectations, misunderstandings, and…

— Todd Henry

“While it’s easier to avoid confrontations in the short run, the consequences of doing so can be massively destructive in the long term. It’s…

— Ray Dalio

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

— Russell M. Nelson

“The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the pursuit of…

— Matthew Kelly

Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely because they…

— Ray Dalio

“conflicts are essential for great relationships”

— Ray Dalio

I suppose that every relationship I have been in has had a lot of arguments. I find it very hard to keep things at…

— Frank Skinner

“Life would be so much easier if, when we hit a snag in a relationship, any relationship, we would stop, address it, and move…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the…

— Harriet B. Braiker

“Disagreement about how to punctuate the sequence of events is at the root of countless relationship struggles.”

— Paul Watzlawick