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Carl Rogers - From the Acceptance category:
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Authority category:
Experience is the highest authority. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Change category:
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Creativity category:
- On Becoming a Person, 1961...
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Education category:
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Education category:
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Ego category:
What I am is good enough, if I would only be it openly. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Experience category:
In a person who is open to experience, each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Growth category:
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Ideas category:
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Individuality category:
- Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human...
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Information category:
The facts are always friendly. Every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Intimacy category:
What is most personal is most universal. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Journey category:
There is direction but there is no destination. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Knowledge category:
Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Life category:
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Listening category:
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Money category:
With the price of life these days, you've got to get for free everything you can. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Optimism category:
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Perfection category:
I'm not perfect... But I'm enough. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Questions category:
Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me? (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Teaching category:
Testing the student's achievements to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Truth category:
The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas and none of my own ideas are as authoritative as my experience. (Carl Rogers)
Carl Rogers - From the Wonder category:
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I
don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it
unfolds. (Carl Rogers)
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