When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.

Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and not saying anything that we think might in any way tarnish people's consciousness of their own beauty.

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.