More Quotes by Virginia Satir
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
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.
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.
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.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
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.
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
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.
You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
