263 Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Keep in mind that other people’s actions can never ‘make’ you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

It’s harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

Our attention is focused on classifying, analyzing, and determining levels of wrongness rather than on what we and others need and are not getting.

Steps to expressing anger: 1. Stop. Breathe. 2. Identify our judgmental thoughts. 3. Connect with our needs. 4. Express our feelings and unmet needs.

I was struck by the crucial role of language and our use of words. I have.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

I wouldn’t expect someone who’s been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.

The number one reason that we don’t get our needs met, we don’t express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don’t our needs met, we don’t make clear requests.

With empathy, I’m fully with them, and not full of them – that’s sympathy.