We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

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.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

Be bold, don't be boring.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

I don’t like San Francisco. I love it!

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.