The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.Carl R. Rogers
Experience is, for me, the highest authority.Carl R. Rogers
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?Carl R. Rogers
I have found that the very feelings which I was taught to regard as destructive and evil are the ones to reveal me the constructive directions in which to move.Carl R. Rogers
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.Carl R. Rogers
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.Carl R. Rogers
The interpersonal situation, in a climate of psychological safety, facilitates changeCarl R. Rogers
Perhaps the most basic of these essential attitudes is realness or genuineness. When the therapist is experiencing a positive, acceptant attitude toward whatever the client is at that moment, therapeutic movement or change is more likely to occur.Carl R. Rogers
The therapist’s task is to provide such a climate in which individuals can discover and create the self. The goal is no longer an adjustment to society, for there is a deep belief that the societal norms may not be the norms of the developing person.Carl R. Rogers
To be that self which one truly is, is indeed the opposite of despairCarl R. Rogers