"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people……" — Virginia Satir
"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."
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42 Quotes by Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir has 42 quotes on this site.
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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to…
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I am me and I am okay.
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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
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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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You have learned what you have learned very well. It has helped you survive.
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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by…
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Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training…
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This…
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I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem,…
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I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it…
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I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still…
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More Adolescent Quotes
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Unknown Author
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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