Thomas Gordon (psychologist) Quote

It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is, then he is freed to move from there and to begin to think about how he wants to change, how we wants to grow, how he can become different, how he might become more of what he is capable of being.

Parent effectiveness training: the no-lose program for raising responsible children (ed. Plume, 1970) - ISBN: 9780452252523