When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them? — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act. — Marshall B. Rosenberg 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
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
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
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
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
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
Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
You're going to lose it when you follow the world "feel" with the words "because I think". Any time you are thinking,… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The principles of Nonviolent Communication taught by Dr. Rosenberg are instrumental in creating an extraordinary and fulfilling quality of life. His compassionate… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Needs are never conflicting. When we say that, we are only saying that at the moment we aren't seeing how both needs… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
