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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.

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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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Survive
Learned
Wells
Well

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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
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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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As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
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The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
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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.
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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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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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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
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My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.
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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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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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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
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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 get together on the basis of our similarities we grow on the basis of our differences.
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Problems are not the problem coping is the problem.
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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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