I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the potential for personal transformation and growth in individuals, suggesting that change is inherent in all of us.
Virginia Satir highlights the profound belief that human beings possess the capacity for change at the deepest levels. She suggests that change is a fundamental aspect of our being, occurring within every part of us, but the timing and circumstances of such transformations vary. This perspective encourages an optimistic view of human potential, recognizing that while change may be challenging, it is always possible.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
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.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.
There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
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