263 Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Also, think about your intentionality – are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don’t want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

Don’t hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what’s wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we’re going to get what we’re after.

Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.

Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.

The key to fostering connection in the face of a ‘no’ is always hearing ‘yes’ to something else.