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No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.

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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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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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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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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.
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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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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
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The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.
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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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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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Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.
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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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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
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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 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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I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.
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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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