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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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Virginia Satir
Age: 72 †
Born: 1916
Born: June 26
Died: 1988
Died: September 10
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Psychotherapist
Social And Health Care Assistant
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Virginia M. Satir
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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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The message sent is not always the message received.
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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 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 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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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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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
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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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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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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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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
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Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.
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I am me and I am okay.
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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
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