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“If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.”

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.”

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“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.”

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“Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.”

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“In nonviolent communication, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. Then we may wish to reflect back, paraphrasing what we have understood. We stay with empathy, allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before we turn our attention to solutions or requests for relief.”

“When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.”

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

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

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

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Book:Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise

Source: Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise

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

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

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“Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.”

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“Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs”

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“Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.”

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“Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.”

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Book:We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully

Source: We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully

“When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.”

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.”

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“Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.”

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“In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.”

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“The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.”

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Book:The Heart of Social Change: How You Can Make a Difference in Your World

Source: The Heart of Social Change: How You Can Make a Difference in Your World

“If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.”

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

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“When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.”

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“Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.”

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Book:Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

Source: Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

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

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.”

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

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“When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.”

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Book:Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise

Source: Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise

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

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.”

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“Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.”

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“I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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Book:Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

Source: Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships

“There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.”

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“Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.”

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“When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.”

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“If I'm using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. You'll enjoy life more. Hear the truth. The truth is that when somebody's telling you what's wrong with you, the truth is they have a need that isn't getting met. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear the analysis.”

“Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.”

“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.”

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“When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.”

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“Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.”

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