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.

Carl Rogers

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

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.

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".