To be original, or different, is felt to be

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

Carl Rogers

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

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

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.

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.

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

what is most personal is most universal

what is most personal is most universal

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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".