Carl Rogers

"Philosophy is the art of learning to live with the questions that have no final answers."

"Literature shows us that to be human is to struggle, to question, to continually become."

"I have discovered that faith deepens when we surrender our need to have all the answers."

"The person who can truly hear another person has made them real in a way nothing else can."

"I believe that we are all artists of our own lives, though many never claim the brush."

"To love wisely is to love while also maintaining respect for another's autonomy and growth."

"Nature reminds us that growth requires seasons of dormancy and seasons of flourishing."

"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 becoming."

"The only person who experiences our body, our thoughts, and our feelings is ourself. No one else can know these things about us the way we know them."

"We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are."

"Learning is best when the student discovers the truth himself, rather than having it delivered to him."

"I find that when persons are listened to with real understanding, without judgment or evaluation, significant changes occur."

"One of the most rewarding things I have experienced is the realization that when I am most real, I am the most effective."

"The relationship that I find helpful is characterized by a sense of safety."

"When I am not prematurely evaluating, judging, or being protective, then I find the person is free to explore his own inner experiences."

"A person cannot live a helpful life unless they first learn to understand themselves."

"The great majority of us cannot listen; all we do is wait for our turn to speak."

"I believe that the tragedy in America is that we do not know each other."

"Way too many people believe that once they graduate from school, their education is over."

"The innermost core of man's nature, the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his animal nature - is positive in nature."

"I stand by my concept that in every human being there is the capacity for change and growth."

"If we can provide understanding and acceptance, a person can come to see himself differently."

"Most of us fear that if we become our real selves, people will reject us."

"In the moment of genuine encounter between two people, something precious happens."

"To be that self which one truly is, is to enter fully into the stream of life."

"The facts are always friendly; the truth is always friendly."

"I experience so many times that my true thoughts and feelings are much better and clearer when I have released them."

"It seems to me that at its best, education is learning how to become the person you have the potential to become."

"I gradually learned that when I could be myself, it was then that real change could take place."