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Action Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although…
- NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
- We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
- Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.
- NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.
- When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.
- Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.
- I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the…
- Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or…
- Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side…
- 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…
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle