Virginia Satir - Life Quotes

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To all my friends, colleagues and family: I send you love. Please support me in my passage to a new life. I have no other way to thank you than this. You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Virginia Satir

It is easy to see how adolescence becomes so frustrating, and old age so abhorrent, to many people. The life line is disempowered at two major points: at the beginning and at the end. The only acceptable place is in the middle. Power is conferred only on adults. It is denied to youth and seniors.

Virginia Satir

Family life is something like an iceberg: most people are aware of only about one-tenth of what is going on—the tenth that they can see and hear.

Virginia Satir