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Virginia Satir Quotes:

Virginia Satir quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: June 26, 1916 - September 10, 1988

Birthday: June 26

Death: September 10

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

Topics: Life, Being Yourself, Positive Thinking, Self Determination, Perceived Self

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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.

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

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Marriage, Kisses And Hugs

I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Topics: Hurt, Assessment, People

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

source: - Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”

Topics: Communication

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.

Topics: Inspire, Want, Excited

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

Topics: Parenting, Past, Parenthood

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.

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

Topics: Children, Self Worth, Expression, Facial Expression

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

Topics: Believe, Learning, Something New, Learning Something New

It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

Topics: Children, Nice, Parenting

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.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Break Up

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

Topics: People, Trying, Tunes

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

Topics: Problem, Symptoms, Deeper

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

source: - Steve Andreas, Virginia Satir (1991). “Virginia Satir, the patterns of her magic”, Science & Behavior Books

Topics: Problem, Coping

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.

Topics: Mean, Opportunity, Two, Negative Experiences

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

Topics: Essence, Miracle, Needs

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.

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

Topics: Communication, Skills, Issues, Family Issues, Microcosm

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

Topics: Knowing, Not Knowing, Problem

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.

Topics: Beautiful, Spiritual, Inspirational Life

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.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Believe, I Believe, Heard

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.

source: - Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”

Topics: Love You, Appreciate, Judging, Invading, I Want To Love You

The message sent is not always the message received.

Topics: Messages

I am me and I am okay.

Topics: Recovery, Okay

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Topics: Inspirational, Teenage, People, Teenage Girl, Being A Teenager

Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

Topics: Emotional, Jail, People

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

Topics: Important, Events, Response

I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

Topics: Appreciate, Judging, Judgement, Nonviolent Communication, Invading

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

Topics: Eight, Growth, Survival

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.

Topics: Motivational, Family, Appreciation, Individual Differences, Spiritual Family

Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.

Topics: Pain, Deals, Therapy

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Topics: Parent, Littles, Given

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

Topics: Communication, World, Earth

Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.

Topics: Simple, Training, Together

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

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

Topics: Differences, Together, Grows

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.

Topics: Freedom, Thinking, Risk

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

Topics: Blessing, Giving, Support

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.

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

Topics: Jobs, Commitment, Successful, Love Wisdom

Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.

Topics: Teacher, Jobs, Children, Board Of Education, Janitor

Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.

Topics: Destiny, Goal, People, Tied Up, Common Goal

In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.

Topics: Hurt, Jobs, Disappointment

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

Topics: Jobs, Children, Two, Merging

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Topics: People, Misery, Certainty

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 ...

Topics: Teacher, School, People

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

Topics: Balance, Taste, Fit

You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Topics: Grateful, Feelings, Development

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.

Topics: Thinking, Would Be, World, Personal Matter, Before I Die

No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.

Topics: Unique, Fingerprints, Being Unique

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

Topics: Strong, Self Esteem, Responsibility, Strong Sense Of Self

A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

Topics: Growing, Body, Observation, Clinicals

I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.

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

Topics: Okay

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.

Topics: Change, Cells, People, People Can Change

You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.

Topics: Wells

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

Topics: Easy, Stage, Adolescence

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

Topics: Giving, Persons, I Can

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

Topics: Way, Responsible, Feels

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

Topics: Giving, Dies

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

Topics: Feelings, Defense, Faces, Full Life

My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.

Topics: Dream, Self Esteem, Technology, High Self Esteem

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