Salvador Minuchin quotes

“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 Minuchin

Source : 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.”
-- Salvador Minuchin

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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 Minuchin

Source : Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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“Certainty is the enemy of change.”
-- Salvador Minuchin

Source : 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 Minuchin

Source : Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”

“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.”

“There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.”

“Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.”

“I have no plans of getting married so soon”

“I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.”

“The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.”

“Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 21, 2013

“The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.”