Virginia Axline quotes

Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.
-- Virginia Axline

#Children #Heart #Play

Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.
-- Virginia Axline

#Children #Opportunity #Self

Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.
-- Virginia Axline

#Asking Questions #Would Be #Doe

... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.
-- Virginia Axline

#Distance #People #Horizon

Perhaps it is easier to understand that even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behavior of another person, we can grant that each individual does have their private world of meaning, conceived out of the integrity and dignity of their personality.
-- Virginia Axline

#Integrity #Personality #Doe

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.