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I am me and I am okay.

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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
Social Worker
Teacher
Writer
Virginia M. Satir
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Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.
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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
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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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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
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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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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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The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
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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.
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I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.
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I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
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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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We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
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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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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.
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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.
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