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Other Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us…
- What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full…
- In empathy, you don't speak at all. You speak with the eyes. You speak with your body. If you say any words at all, it's…
- The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.
- If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely…
- When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
- We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.
- I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.
- Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.
- NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.
- Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
- NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.
- If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.
- Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.
- We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.
- Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because…
- 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…
- Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be…
- If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do…
- Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're…
- Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour