Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't… — 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
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
Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can… — Michael N. Nagler 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
We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction. — 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
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
As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If you have an image of someone cutting off a relationship, it's the cutting off that will lead to your suffering. If… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
