Virginia Satir Quotes

Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

I had a husband who stayed with me, and small children, and I had no choice but to pull myself together and rebuild a different kind of life. There was no other choice.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

As much as a given condition can be bad at a moment in time, it could be a lot worse.

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

I really wish this wasn't a thing. But this tumor is a thing. Even though it's not what I would have chosen for myself, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be all bad. What I keep trying to remind myself is this is one of those things that looks like a really bad thing on the outside but I know too little about life to be sure.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.

It's a funny thing, life... as much as you don't want the sun to come up, it comes up the next day. Life continues on and you have to make a choice in how you handle it.

Every loss I take, I've accepted, and I move on.