More Quotes by Virginia Satir
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.
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.
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.
We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
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.
Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
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.
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.
