Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• What I want in my life is compassion
  a flow between myself and others
  based on mutual giving from the heart.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Heart, Compassion, Giving

• When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Compassion, Judging, Focus

• Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Communication, Compassion

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, People

• An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Regret, Past, Compassion

• We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Compassion, People, Guilt

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Way

• Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Punishment

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Self

• When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Compassion, People, Needs

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