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- Carl Ransom Rogers
- 1961
- “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy.
- “What is most personal is most universal.” ― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy.
- “I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times.
- “The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.”
- Carl R. Rogers
- 1967
- “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner."
- “To be with another in this [empathic] way means that for the time being, you lay aside your own views and values in order to enter another's world without prejudice.
- “I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.” ― Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being.
- “When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!”
- “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy.
- “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner."
- “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” ― Carl R. Rogers.
- “What is most personal is most universal.” ― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy.
The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me. Carl Rogers.
- Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.
- The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. Carl Rogers. Change, Appreciation, Hypnosis.
- We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.
- People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner."
Jul 26, 2023 · Read selected quotes from pioneering humanist psychologist Carl Rogers. Get words of wisdom on topics like human nature and self-actualization.
“The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person” (Carl Rogers 1980 P140).
