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More Quotes by Virginia Satir
The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.
I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
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.
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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.
Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
