"Two truths can never contradict each other."
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"The mediator should serve the parties involved, enter their world modestly and respectfully and make himself available, assuming that the parties involved are capable of independently developing good solutions - which is equal to fair solutions - that both parties perceive as just."
Lis Ripke
German Mediation Pioneer,
Haltung des Mediators, Handbuch Mediation und Konfliktmanagement 2017
"Simplicity equals a voluntary restriction to the essential."
Andreas Tenzer
Philosopher, Psychologist,
Educational educator
"For the sake of my brothers, I speak the word of peace."
Alvise Contarini
Mediator in the negotiations leading to the Peace of Westphalia in Münster,
which ended the Thirty Years' War
on October 24, 1648
"It can rightly be said that it is not the mediators who conclude the contracts, but the willingness of the parties to do so."
Abraham de Wicquefort
Dutch Diplomat,
"Teacher of Diplomats" (Dickmann), 1606-1682
"Hope is not the belief that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something has meaning - no matter how it turns out."
Václav Havel
Writer, President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, pioneer of German-Czech reconciliation
"It is not your legs that run, but your heart and soul."
Eliud Kipchoge
Kenyan marathon runner
and world record holder
Berlin Marathon 2018
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