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Virginia Satir (26 June 1916 – 10 September 1988) was an American author and therapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her pioneering work in the field of family reconstruction therapy. She is widely regarded as the "Mother of Family Therapy" Her most well-known books are Conjoint Family Therapy, 1964, Peoplemaking, 1972, and The New Peoplemaking, 1988.

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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Irrational, Lingers, Parenthood, Parenting, Past, Unresolved

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.

Chinese, Ideographs, Mean, Negative Experiences, Opportunity, Reminder

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.

Blessing, Giving, Matter, Quick, Support

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

Adulthood, Communicate, Responsibility, Self Esteem, Strong

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.

Appreciate, Enrich, Judging, Leave, Love You

Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.

Destiny, Goal, Involved, Large, People, Relationship

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

Biggest, Humans, Know, Knowing, Problem

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.

Believe, Greatest, Heard, Love, Touched, Understood

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

Basic, Essence, Miracle, Miracles, Needs, See

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

Asked, Given, Littles, Parent, Parents

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.

Excited, Inspire, Right, See, Want

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.

Appreciation, Family, Individual, Motivational, Open, Rules

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.

Family, Place, Simple, Together, Training

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Day, Growth, Inspirational, Love, Maintenance, Marriage

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.

Child, Children, Expression, Self Worth, Sending, Word

The message sent is not always the message received.

Message, Messages, Received, Sent

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

Bases, Basis, Differences, Grow, Together

I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.

Engineer, Engineers, I Can, Okay

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.

Assessment, Hurt, Live, People, Talked

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

Communication, Factor, Happens, Largest, Motivation, World

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