Tom Butler-Bowdon

“Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.”

“When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition, envy, jealousy, playing God, or greed; or nonaggressive traits: withdrawal, anxiety, timidity, or absence of social graces. When any of these forces gains the upper hand, it is usually because of deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Yet the forces also create an intensity or tension that can give tremendous energy.”

“What we think we lack determines what we will become in life.”

“The contribution of humanistic psychology to better relationships is recognized by the inclusion of Carl Rogers, whose influential book reminds us that relationships cannot flower if they don’t have a climate of listening and nonjudgmental acceptance, and that empathy is the mark of a genuine person.”

“Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?”

“The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.”

“Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.”