Jacques H Botes

09/03/2026

In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? – Carl Rogers

06/03/2026

05/03/2026

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. – CS Lewis

03/03/2026

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. – Mark Twain

02/03/2026

It's more important to be the right person than it is to find the right person. – Leo Buscaglia

26/02/2026

Have a happy day!

25/02/2026

When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. – John F. Kennedy

24/02/2026

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. – Henri Nouwen

23/02/2026

Life, at its best, is a flowing; changing process in which nothing is fixed. – Carl Rogers

20/02/2026

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. – Benjamin Franklin