Carl Rogers

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?

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

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

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

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

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.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

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

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

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

It's an awful risky thing to live.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

In my early professionals 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?

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

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.