Virginia Satir Quotes

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.