Salvador Minuchin quotes
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“The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.”
-- Salvador MinuchinSource : Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press
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“I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.”
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“Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.”
-- Salvador MinuchinSource : Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press
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“Certainty is the enemy of change.”
-- Salvador MinuchinSource : Salvador Minuchin, Michael D. Reiter, Charmaine Borda (2013). “The Craft of Family Therapy: Challenging Certainties”, p.4, Routledge
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“In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.”
-- Salvador MinuchinSource : Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.”
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“Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.”
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“The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.”
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