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As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
Virginia Satir
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Virginia Satir
Age: 72 †
Born: 1916
Born: June 26
Died: 1988
Died: September 10
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Virginia M. Satir
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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
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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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I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
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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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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
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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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I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
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Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing. We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.
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Problems are not the problem coping is the problem.
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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 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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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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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 need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
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Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
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It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
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There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is The freedom to say what you feel and think The freedom to feel what you actually feel The freedom to ask for what you want The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.
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