"I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world."

-- Arun Manilal Gandhi

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“The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.”
“What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'”
“Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.”
“Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!”
“The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.”
“Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people â€¦ or find a different room.”
“Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.”
“I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951

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