263 Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

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

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, ’a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we’re likely to create more harm than good.

The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone’s needs.

Anger is a signal that you’re distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

Anger tells us we’ve disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.