However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

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 be punished.

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

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

The best way to Prove your critics wrong is to Improve yourself

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my house.

Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.

Thought is action in rehearsal.