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I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
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
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Virginia M. Satir
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Problems are not the problem coping is the problem.
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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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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
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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 greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
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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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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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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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