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Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?
— Carl R. Rogers
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
— Carl R. Rogers
We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself.
— Carl R. Rogers
Life is about Being & Becoming
— Carl Rogers
Colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival.
— Carl R. Rogers
I like to think of myself as a quiet revolutionary.
— Carl R. Rogers
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
— Carl Rogers
It is a direction not a destination.
— Carl Rogers
Can I "accept" a person's anger at me as an authentic aspect of himself? Can I "accept" the person if his beliefs and values are different from mine?
— Carl R. Rogers
To be what one is, is to enter fully into being a process.
— Carl R. Rogers
In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as though I were something that I am not.
— Carl R. Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
— Carl R. Rogers
I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.
- Ellen West — Carl R. Rogers
- Ellen West — Carl R. Rogers
I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.
— Carl R. Rogers
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
— Carl Rogers
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
— Carl Rogers
Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!
— Carl Rogers
It's an awful risky thing to live
— Carl Rogers
I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.
— Carl R. Rogers
The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.
— Carl R. Rogers
There is no organised encounter group. There is simply a freedom of expression - of feelings and thoughts - on any personally relevant issue.
— Carl R. Rogers
I prize the privilege of being alone.
— Carl Rogers
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.
— Carl Rogers
What you are to be, you are now becoming.
— Carl Rogers
The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.
— Carl R. Rogers
A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning
— Carl Rogers
Experience is the highest authority.
— Carl Rogers
It seems to me that anything that can be taught to another is relatively inconsequential, and has little or no significant influence on behavior.
— Carl R. Rogers
I have come to realize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real.
— Carl Rogers
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
— Carl Rogers
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
— Carl Rogers
I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.
— Carl R. Rogers
I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.
— Carl R. Rogers
Group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led.
— Carl R. Rogers
In therapy the individual learns to recognize and express his feelings as his own feelings, not as a fact about another person.
— Carl R. Rogers
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.
— Carl R. Rogers
Once an experience is fully in awareness, fully accepted, then it can be coped with effectively, like any other clear reality.
— Carl R. Rogers
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
— Carl Rogers
It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.
— Carl R. Rogers
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
— Carl Rogers
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
— Carl Rogers
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
— Carl R. Rogers
Each man must resolve within himself issues for which his society previously took full responsibility.
— Carl R. Rogers
Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.
— Carl Rogers
There is direction but there is no destination
— Carl R. Rogers
It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.
— Carl Rogers
I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.
— Carl R. Rogers
What is most personal is most universal.
— Carl R. Rogers