Life is about Being & Becoming. — Carl Rogers

With the price of life these days, you’ve got to get everything for free you can. — 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. — Carl Rogers

Colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival. — Carl R. Rogers

There is direction but there is no destination — Carl R. Rogers

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

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future. — Carl Rogers

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. — Carl Rogers

No other person’s ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. — Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. — Carl Rogers

To recognize that ‘I am the one who chooses’ and ‘I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me’ is both an invigoraring and a frightening realization. — Carl R. Rogers

When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. — Carl Rogers

We live by a perceptual ‘map’ which is never reality itself. — Carl R. Rogers

To be original, or different, is felt to be ‘dangerous. — Carl Rogers

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

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me? — Carl R. Rogers

To be what one is, is to enter fully into being a process. — Carl R. Rogers

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. — Carl R. Rogers

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. — Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. — Carl Rogers

Don’t be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle… knowledge exists primarily for use. — Carl Rogers

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

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

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish. — Carl Rogers

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are. — Carl Rogers

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

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 R. Rogers

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. — Carl Rogers

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture. — Carl R. Rogers

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority. — Carl Rogers

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem. — Carl Rogers

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated–and hopeless. — Carl Rogers

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self–discovered, self–appropriated learning. — Carl R. Rogers

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

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner. — Carl Rogers

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. — Carl Rogers