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• When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

  Carl Rogers

  Optimistic, People, Psychology

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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 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 Rogers

  Growth, Degrees, Persons

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

  Carl Rogers

  Evil, Empathy, Quality

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• what is most personal is most universal

  Carl Rogers

  Universal

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• I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

  Carl Rogers

  Mistake, Educational, Thinking

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• If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

  Carl Rogers

  Self Esteem, People, Majority

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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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• 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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• I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person — is just fully to appreciate this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset.

  Carl Rogers

  Sunset, Clouds, Hands

  "Freedom to learn".

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• There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

  Carl Rogers

  Movement, Levels, Flow

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Carl Rogers

  Powerful, Empathy, Needs

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• Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

  Carl Rogers

  Way, Satisfying

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Carl Rogers

  Empathy, Understanding, Feelings

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• Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

  Carl Rogers

  Authority, Highest

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

  Carl Rogers

  Loneliness, Self, Uniting

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• To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

  Carl Rogers

  Different, Conformity, Mental Health

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Carl Rogers

  Self, Individuality, Architect

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• The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Teaching, Learning, Adults

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• 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, 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

  Ideas, Return, Becoming

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Emotional, Empathy, States

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.

  Carl Rogers

  Upset, Feelings, May

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

  Carl Rogers

  Ideas, Persons, My Own

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

  Carl Rogers

  Business, Healing, Confusion

  "A Way of Being".

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• The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

  Carl Rogers

  Strive, Tendencies, Organisms

  Carl Rogers (2012). “Client Centred Therapy (New Ed)”, p.353, Hachette UK

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