Virginia Satir Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Virginia Satir

  Thinking, Events, Doe

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Assessment, People

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• 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.

  Virginia Satir

  Hurt, Jobs, Children

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

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  Giving, Dies

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

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  Emotional, Jail, People

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

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  Feelings, Defense, Faces

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

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  Okay, Engineers, I Can

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

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• Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

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  Problem, Coping

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

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

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  Appreciate, Judging, Judgement

  Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”

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

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  Knowing, Problem, Humans

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• 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.

  Virginia Satir

  Change, Cells, People

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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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• 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.

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  Motivation, Communication, World

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Teenage, People

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• 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.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• 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.

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  Strong, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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

  Virginia Satir

  Wells

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

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  Eight, Survival, Hug

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• 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.

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  Children, Nice, Parenting

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

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Children, Two

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

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• 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.

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  Simple, Training, Together

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

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• I am me and I am okay.

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  Recovery, Okay

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

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• 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.

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  Grateful, Feelings, Development

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• 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.

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  Destiny, Goal, People

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

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