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

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

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

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.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.