Virginia Satir Quotes
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I am me and I am okay.
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Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.
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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
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It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.
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A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
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The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.
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The message sent is not always the message received.
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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.
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We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
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Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.
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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.
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We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
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As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
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Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
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We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
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I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
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Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
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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.