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.
Interpretation
This quote encourages self-excitement and the potential for growth beyond current circumstances.
Virginia Satir's quote reflects the importance of self-acceptance and enthusiasm for oneβs own identity and circumstances. She emphasizes that individuals should embrace who they are and what they possess while inspiring them to recognize their vast potential for growth and achievement, suggesting that there is always more to aspire to and achieve.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech to encourage self-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.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'
We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
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