More Quotes by Virginia Satir
The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
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.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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.
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
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.
Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.
