With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness.… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views… — 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… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without… — 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… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“The most valuable information on how to maintain or save relationships comes from scientific observation of couples in action, right down to… — 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
