Carl Rogers | American Psychologist ✍️

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

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.

The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy—man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

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.

To be what one is, is to enter fully into being a process.

Being empathetic is seeing the world through the eyes of the other, not seeing your world reflected in their eyes.

I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

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.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

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.

Change threatens, and its possibility creates frightened, angry people. They are found in their purest essence on the extreme right, but in all of us there is some fear of process, of change.

I have come to recognize that the reason I devote myself to research, and to the building of theory, is to satisfy a need for perceiving order and meaning, a subjective need which exists in me.

When I am thus able to be in process, it is clear that there can be no closed system of beliefs, no unchanging set of principles which I hold. Life is guided by a changing understanding of and interpretation of my experience. It is always in process of becoming.

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

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.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

What is most personal is most universal.