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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

Virginia Satir

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Virginia Satir
Age: 72 †
Born: 1916
Born: June 26
Died: 1988
Died: September 10
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Psychotherapist
Social And Health Care Assistant
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Virginia M. Satir
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
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As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
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I am me and I am okay.
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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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We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
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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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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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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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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.
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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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The message sent is not always the message received.
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We get together on the basis of our similarities we grow on the basis of our differences.
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