BIRTHDAYS JUNE 26
WORD OF THE DAY: AMBROSIA
VIRGINIA SATIR. 1916-1988 “Peplemaking” “Making Contact”
WE MUST NOT allow others people’s limited perceptions to define us.
THERE ARE FIVE FREEDOMS:
The freedom to see and hear what is;
The freedom to say what you feel and think;
The freedom to feel what you actually feel;
The freedom to ask for what you want;
The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.
LIFE is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. the way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
I WAN T 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 now.
WE NEED 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
PEOPLE PREFER THE CERTAINTY OF MISERY TO THE MISERY OF UNCERTAINTY.
TO CHANGE THE WORLD IS TO CHANGE THE FAMILY.
EVERY WORD, facial expression, GESTURE, OR ACTION ON THE PART OF A PARENT gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.
THE MESSAGE SENT IS NOT ALWAYS THE MESSAGE RECEIVED.
THE PROBLEM is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.
THE SYMBOL in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.
I REGARD PARENTING as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.
AS A THERAPIST, i am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.
WE CAN LEARN SOMETHING NEW ANYTIME WE BELIEVE WE CAN.
OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM as human beings is not knowing that we don’t know.
MANY PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN AN EMOTIONAL JAIL WITHOUT REALIZING IT.
WE NEED TO SEE OURSELVES AS BASIC MIRACLES.
THE FULL LIFE is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
BERNARD BERENSON 1865-1959 “Italian Pictures” “Lorenzo Lotto”
“The Drawing of the Florentine Painters” “The Italian Painters”
MIRACLES HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THEM.
CONSISTENCY requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
TASTE BEGINS WHEN APPETITE IS SATISFIED.
THE ULTIMATE JUSTIFICATION of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
NOT WHAT A MAN KNOWS but what man feels, concerns set. All else is science.
LIFE HAS TAUGHT me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
GENIUS is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
A FULL LIFE may be on e ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
PEARL S. BUCK 1892-1973 “The Good Earth”
THE TEST OF A CIVILIZATION is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
LOVE CANNOT BE FORCED, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
TO FIND JOY IN WORK IS TO DISCOVER THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
TRUTH is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Best wishes for a FUN day!