Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Inspirational, People, Giving

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.31, PuddleDancer Press

• When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Happiness, Communication, Grieving

• 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 and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Respect, Strong, Offering

• When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Forget Everything, Giving

• What I want in my life is compassion
  a flow between myself and others
  based on mutual giving from the heart.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Heart, Compassion, Giving

• 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 Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss." We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Opportunity, Thinking

• We are designed for Giving

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Motivation, Giving, Protection

• 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

  Communication, Writing, Giving

• Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Strong, Offering, Giving

• NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Giving, Understanding

• Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving Up, Communication, Mean

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully”, p.30, PuddleDancer Press

• We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy, Needs

• We need empathy to give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy, Needs

• 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 to be present with the other person. If this fails to happen, however, we have a couple of other choices.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Couple, Giving, Choices

• We need to receive empathy to give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy, Needs

• Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Giving, Empathy

• The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy, Understanding

• NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Mean, Skills

• Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for. Anything we do to avoid punishment, everybody pays for. Everything we do for a reward, everybody pays for. Everything we do to make people like us, everybody pays for. Everything we do out of guilt, shame, duty, or obligation, everybody pays for.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Punishment, People

• We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Giving, Empathy

• When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Communication, Track

• When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Giving, Empathy

• Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Writing, Giving

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin