Carl Rogers Quotes

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Life is about Being & Becoming.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

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.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another’s learning.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

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 selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.