Nonviolent Communication Quotes

125 Nonviolent Communication quotes by 1 unique authors

• All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• NVC is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to the beauty within ourselves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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• 125 Nonviolent Communication Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg