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.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.
People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
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.
We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
