Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

To disagree does not equate to ill intent. It says either, "You have not provided me with sufficient information to accept your claim," "I see your point, yet I feel differently," or "I do not feel that your point is valid." Any of those can only be accepted as a part of open healthy dialog. Where we go from there makes the difference.

Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and behavior to create more of what the world needs – love, compassion, and connection.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.