Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
Virginia Satir
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Emotional
Realizing
Living
Without
Many
People
Jail
More quotes by Virginia Satir
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
Virginia Satir
Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.
Virginia Satir
We get together on the basis of our similarities we grow on the basis of our differences.
Virginia Satir
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
Virginia Satir
The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Virginia Satir
I am me and I am okay.
Virginia Satir
You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
Virginia Satir
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
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.
Virginia Satir
I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
Virginia Satir