More Quotes by Virginia Satir
I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
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.
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
