More Quotes by Virginia Satir
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.
I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The message sent is not always the message received.
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.
It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.
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.
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.
Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.
