The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind,… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
