Nonviolent Communication Quotes

Nonviolent Communication Quote of the day

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Don't do anything that isn't play

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

Empathy before education.

Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!

Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.

Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

Never do anything that isn't play.

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

NO is always a YES to something else.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.