Carl Rogers Quotes

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

what is most personal is most universal

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

Life is about Being & Becoming.

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.