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

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

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

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

Our ability to offer empathy can allow others to understand their feelings, to see their needs, and eventually to move beyond their pain.

To practice the process of Nonviolent Communication, we must completely abandon the goal of getting other people to do what we want.

The more we can hear our feelings, the more we become prophets of our own lives.

What others do may be a stimulus of our feelings, but not the cause.

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life