Carl Rogers Quotes

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• Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
• Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
• The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
• To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
• When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then…
• When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn…
• It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.
• A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each…
• As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
• A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning
• One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look…
• With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
• Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas,…
• The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
• Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.
• 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 self-directed…
• This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more…
• Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.
• We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully…
• The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize…

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