NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

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.

Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment.

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

To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.