Quotes About Nvc

#1. When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#2. Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#3. NVC is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to the beauty within ourselves.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#4. In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#5. NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.

Arun Manilal Gandhi

#7. NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#8. However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#10. The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#12. NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#13. All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#14. To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#15. I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#16. We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#17. NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#18. NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#20. NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#21. My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy that serves me to meet these needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#22. NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#23. Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#24. Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#25. NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic and business negotiations, disputes and conflicts of any nature.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#27. Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Lactantius

#28. We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead

Jane Austen

#29. The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

Isaac Hanson

#30. Beauty crowds me till I die." Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

#31. Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

Jenson Button

#32. There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

Ajahn Amaro

#33. People always have choices. They might not always have options, but they do have choices.

Kasey Michaels

#34. It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

Raymond Chandler

#35. Natural gas is not a bridge - it's a gangplank.

Michael Brune

#36. Can't get a read on you," he noted after a few beats. "You either just got a late life offer from the Colts to be their starting tight end or you're planning to kidnap someone to torture them.

Kristen Ashley

#37. The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

Theresa May

#38. Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Henry Fielding