Marshall Rosenberg Quotes

• You can’t make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn’t made them wish they had.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Children, Power

  Tags in Authority, Communication, Choice, Choosing

• Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Values, Judgment, Criticism

• The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, “What nonsense!” shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Observation, Judgment

• It’s never what people do that make us angry; it’s what we tell ourselves about what they did.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Anger

• All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Nonviolence, Responsibility, Violence

• Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we’ll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Enemies, Understanding

• When we understand the needs that motivate our own and other’s behavior, we have no enemies.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Enemies

• I’m interested in learning that’s motivated by reverence for life, that’s motivated by a desire to learn skills, to learn new things that help us to better contribute to our own well-being and the well-being of others. And what fills me with great sadness is any learning that I see motivated by coercion.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Compassion, Learning

• The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from the meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world that they want to live in.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Meditation

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Birth:	6th October, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Psychologist

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