More Quotes by Virginia Satir
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.
The message sent is not always the message received.
Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.
The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.
I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.
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.
We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
I am me and I am okay.
