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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.
Virginia Satir
Love, Inspirational, Marriage

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Virginia Satir
Life, Being Yourself, Positive Thinking

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.
Virginia Satir
Love You, Appreciate, Judging

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are
appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of
atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir
Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
Virginia Satir
Differences, Together, Grows

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.
Virginia Satir
Inspire, Want, Excited

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 ...
Virginia Satir
Teacher, School, People

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Virginia Satir
People, Misery, Certainty

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

Virginia Satir
Communication, Breaths

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.
Virginia Satir
Freedom, Thinking, Risk

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.
Virginia Satir

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Communication, Skills, Issues

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Virginia Satir
Important, Events, Response

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.
Virginia Satir
Children, Self Worth, Expression

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.
Virginia Satir
Inspirational, Life, Break Up

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.
Virginia Satir
Believe, Heard, Understood

I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing

job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment,
humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility
for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to
a new and unique human being.
Virginia Satir
Jobs, Commitment, Successful

The message sent is not always the message received.

Virginia Satir
Messages

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
Virginia Satir
Feelings, Faces, Defense

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In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative

bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all
situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good
judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents
matches what they say.
Virginia Satir
Hurt, Jobs, Disappointment

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
Virginia Satir
Knowing, Problem, Humans

The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other
means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an
opportunity or into a negative experience.
Virginia Satir
Mean, Opportunity, Negative Experiences

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

Virginia Satir
Believe, Learning, Learning Something New

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.
Virginia Satir
Hurt, Assessment, People

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Virginia Satir
Problem, Coping

Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board
of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are
few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You
are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child
you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or
bosses, whichever the case may be.
Virginia Satir
Teacher, Jobs, Children

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Born: June 26, 1916

Died: September 10, 1988
Occupation: Author
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