Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Interpretation
Our reactions to life events shape our experiences more than the events themselves do.
This quote by Virginia Satir emphasizes the significance of our responses and attitudes towards life's events, suggesting that it is not the events themselves that define our experiences, but rather how we choose to react to them. It highlights the power of perspective and choice in forming our emotional landscape and overall well-being.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience, one might use this quote to emphasize the power of positive thinking.
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.
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 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.
Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.
...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.
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