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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

Virginia Satir

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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
Taste
Everything
Swallow
Fits
Fit
Balance

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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
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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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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
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The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
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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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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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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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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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I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
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I am me and I am okay.
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Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.
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We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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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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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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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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