Carl Rogers Quotes

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

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Appreciation, Hypnosis

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• 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." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

  Carl Rogers

  Sunset, Hands, Orange

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• Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

  Carl Rogers

  Struggle, Views, Skills

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  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.

  Carl Rogers

  Real, Thinking, Empathy

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

  Carl Rogers

  Experts, Perceive, Know How

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• A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

  Carl Rogers

  Teach, Persons, Facilitate

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• 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 understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another.

  Carl Rogers

  Hurt, Confused, Believe

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• People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

  Carl Rogers

  People, Accepted, Feels

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• 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 good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

  Carl Rogers

  Responsibility, Confusion, Empathy

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

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  Carl Rogers

  Relationship, Change, Healing

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Blame, Persons

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• What you are to be, you are now becoming.

  Carl Rogers

  Growth, Becoming, Be You

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• We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.

  Carl Rogers

  Moving, Accepting, Unnoticed

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

  Carl Rogers

  Process, Fixed

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.

  Carl Rogers

  Strong, Moving, Mean

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• I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

  Carl Rogers

  Emotional, Confusion, Pay

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• It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

  Carl Rogers

  Hurt, Psychology, Clients

  Carl Ransom Rogers, Howard Kirschenbaum, Valerie Land Henderson (1989). “The Carl Rogers Reader”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is about Being & Becoming.

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Becoming, Life Is

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• When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".

  Carl Rogers

  Real, Eye, Thinking

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.

  Carl Rogers

  Real, Islands, Bridges

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

  Carl Rogers

  Elements, Passing Judgment, Seems

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

  Carl Rogers

  Real, People, Different

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

  Carl Rogers

  Good Life, Mean, Growing

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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