Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Virginia Satir
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Virginia Satir
Age: 72 †
Born: 1916
Born: June 26
Died: 1988
Died: September 10
Author
Psychotherapist
Social And Health Care Assistant
Social Worker
Teacher
Writer
Virginia M. Satir
Word
Realize
Action
Worth
Part
Parents
Facial
Self
Expression
Gesture
Many
Gives
Sending
Giving
Realizing
Gestures
Children
Parent
Message
Every
Child
Messages
More quotes by Virginia Satir
Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
Virginia Satir
The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
Virginia Satir
As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
Virginia Satir
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
The message sent is not always the message received.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
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
A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
Virginia Satir
We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
Virginia Satir
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir