Nonviolent Communication Quotes - Page 8

• NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Beauty Within

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.4, PuddleDancer Press

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Judgement, Influence, Contempt

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• Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and not saying anything that we think might in any way tarnish people's consciousness of their own beauty.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Way, Consciousness

  "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding".

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• I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Communication, Behinds, Standing

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• We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Communication, Sadness, Joy

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• Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Needs, Wake Up

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• 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

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• They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Needs, Said

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• Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

  Voltaire

  Weakness, Sides, Argument

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4667, Delphi Classics

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• You're going to lose it when you follow the world "feel" with the words "because I think". Any time you are thinking, your chance of getting what you need is greatly decreased, especially when you follow the word "think" with the word "you". I predict you won't only not get heard, but I predict a defensive aggressive reaction.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Needs

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• The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Scare

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• Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.

  Ron Rubin

  Communication, Opportunity, Difficult Work

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

  Rudolf Steiner

  Communication, Soul

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• Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Common, Sin, Natural

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• Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Religious, Communication, Men

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• In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Communication, Unhappy, Finding Peace

  Rudolf Steiner, Richard Seddon (2004). “Rudolf Steiner”, p.118, North Atlantic Books

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• Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Jackals

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• Needs are the expression of life through us.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Needs

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• 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

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• Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspiring, Volunteer

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• Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Fun, Communication, Mean

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• Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Criticism

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• Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Healing, Important

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.36, PuddleDancer Press

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• Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Attitude, Communication, Compassion

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