NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful). — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world. — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. — Marshall Rose Copy Share Image
The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
