"It is now clear to me that the……" — Virginia Satir
"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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42 Quotes by Virginia Satir
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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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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
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Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we…
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the…
— Grover Norquist
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It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and…
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