George Kelly

"To help someone, help them see new possibilities in their situation."

"The meaning you create is the meaning you will find."

"A person is not just a collection of behaviors; they are an active agent interpreting their world."

"We are all scientists in our own right, forming hypotheses about how to live."

"The way you construe events determines how you will respond to them."

"Man looks at his world through transparent patterns or templates which he creates and then attempts to fit over the realities of which the world is composed."

"If you do not like the world you are living in, change the way you are looking at it."

"People are not victims of their circumstances; they are architects of their interpretations."

"The future is something we create through our choices today."

"What we think and believe shapes our reality more than reality shapes our thoughts."

"Every person has within them the capacity to reconstruct their life narrative."

"We are defined not by what happens to us, but by how we make sense of it."

"Personal construct psychology teaches us that we are the authors of our own stories."

"The constructs we use to understand the world are personal and unique to each individual."

"Anticipation is the fundamental characteristic of being human."

"We live by virtue of our anticipations of what will happen."

"To understand a person, you must understand the structure of their personal constructs."

"Psychological problems arise when our constructs no longer work to predict our world."

"Change happens when we are willing to revise our interpretations."

"The person is the form which the biophysical organism takes in his action and experience."

"We continually test our hypotheses about life through our actions and experiences."

"Freedom lies in our ability to reconstruct our understanding of events."

"Man is not just a reactor to his environment; he is an active interpreter of it."

"The constructs we form become the basis for all our social relationships."

"To change behavior, you must first change how a person construes the situation."

"Our relationships are defined by the degree to which we share similar constructs."

"What makes us human is our capacity to imagine alternatives to the present."

"We create our own meaning through the process of construction and reconstruction."

"Psychological flexibility comes from having multiple ways to interpret life events."

"Our sense of self is not fixed; it is constantly evolving through our experiences."