More Quotes by Virginia Satir
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.
I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.
Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
