We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Interpretation
We should not let others' narrow views shape our self-identity.
Virginia Satir emphasizes the importance of self-definition and the danger of allowing others to impose their limited perceptions on us. It's a reminder that our worth and identity should come from within, and not be dictated by external opinions, which may be biased or uninformed.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance and personal growth.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
The message sent is not always the message received.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
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.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.
It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.
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