Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.

The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.

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

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

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