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It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

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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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Angry
Responsible
Ways
Feel
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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
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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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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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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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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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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
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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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The message sent is not always the message received.
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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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I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
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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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I am me and I am okay.
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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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No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.
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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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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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