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We get together on the basis of our similarities we grow on the basis of our differences.

Virginia Satir

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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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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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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
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A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
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You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.
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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
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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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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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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
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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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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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I am me and I am okay.
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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
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The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.
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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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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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I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
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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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