"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."

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Source : Steve Andreas, Virginia Satir (1991). “Virginia Satir, the patterns of her magic”, Science & Behavior Books

Virginia Satir

#Problem Quotes #Coping Quotes

“The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.”
“This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?”
“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.”
“Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!”
“If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.”
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
“The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.”
“Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.”

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