79 Quotes by 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 the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.

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

As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.