"I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other."

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Source : Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”

Virginia Satir

#Love You Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Judging Quotes

“I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because you are allowed to do this thing.' By this I mean, they can do what millions of people cannot do. Many people cannot think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening. To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfillment to those who are not so fortunate.”
“I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.”

Source : PHILIP WYLIE (1943). “CORPSES AT INDIAN STONES”
“Of course that's the best way to continue to learn anything: Try to teach it!”
“If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.”
“Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!”
“One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.”
“You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.”
“We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.”

Source : Susan Moody (1998). “Return to the Secret Garden”, G K Hall & Company

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