Virginia Satir Quotes

I can admit and say that I have feelings.

I am an emotional person, but I am not embarrassed by that.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health, or receive support from others.

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.

The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

I don't mean to be so sensitive, but that's just who I am. And I'm not afraid to admit it.

I'm sensitive. I'm proud of being sensitive. I'm proud of being empathetic.

Showing your emotions is not a weakness.

I just want people to know it's OK to really feel their feelings.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

I don't think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions.

I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

I guess I'm pretty emotional.