All Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes
- Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs. Any
- If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart. Both
- Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized. Advice
- You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you… All
- We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist… Aside
- All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to… Abuse
- Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. Anger
- Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values Actually Expressions
- Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide… Attack
- To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want. Abandon
- It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did. Anger
- We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel. Behave
- When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own… Clarifying
- An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self… Able
- We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to… Applies
- We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. Dehumanized