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More Quotes by Virginia Satir
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.
I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.
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.
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.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.
The message sent is not always the message received.