If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered… — 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
