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Our Own Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would…
- 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…
- To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
- Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.
- NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and…
- Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance…
- When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.
- When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.
- In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
- 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.
- NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being…
- Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated…
- 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…
- Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values
- 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…
More Our Own Quotes
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann