Succeeding Quotes by Virginia Satir

You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I…

— Virginia Satir

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

— 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…

— Virginia Satir

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values…

— Virginia Satir

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

— Virginia Satir

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

— Virginia Satir

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

— Virginia Satir

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,…

— Virginia Satir

No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.

— Virginia Satir

Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the…

— Virginia Satir

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…

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I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

— Virginia Satir

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…

— Virginia Satir

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood…

— Virginia Satir

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

— Virginia Satir