Virginia Satir Quotes

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• I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

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  Love You, Appreciate, Judging

  Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”

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• Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

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  Inspirational, Life, Break Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

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  Inspire, Want, Excited

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• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

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  Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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• We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

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  Differences, Together, Bases

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

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  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  "Magic Touch: Six Things You Can Do to Connect in a Disconnected World" by Carolyn Rosenblatt, www.forbes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

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  Communication, Breaths

  Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”

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• It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

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  Communication, Skills, Issues

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

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  Important, Events, Response

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• I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

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  Love, Believe, Heard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are five freedoms:
  The freedom to see and hear what is;
  The freedom to say what you feel and think;
  The freedom to feel what you actually feel;
  The freedom to ask for what you want;
  The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Risk

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• Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

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  Children, Self Worth, Expression

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

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  Life, Being Yourself, Positive Thinking

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• I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.

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  Jobs, Commitment, Successful

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

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  People, Misery, Certainty

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• The message sent is not always the message received.

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  Messages

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• Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Real

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• The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

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  Giving, Persons, I Can

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• I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.

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  Thinking, Events, Doe

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• The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

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  Problem, Symptoms, Deeper

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• The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.

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  Mean, Opportunity, Negative Experiences

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• Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

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  Teacher, School, People

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• As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.

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  People, Trying, Tunes

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• It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

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  Way, Responsible, Feels

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• What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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  Parenting, Past, Parenthood

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