Quotes by Carl Rogers
“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”— 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?”— Carl Rogers
“Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience.”— Carl Rogers
“A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning.”— Carl Rogers
“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
“True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with a feeling of being understood and prized as a person.”— Carl Rogers
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”— 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 Rogers
“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
“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
“The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.”— Carl 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