As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves. Carl Rogers More Quotes by Carl Rogers More Quotes From Carl Rogers The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself. Carl Rogers degrees growth persons The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people! Carl Rogers different real people What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Carl Rogers being-yourself motivational inspirational This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. Carl Rogers good-life growing mean Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. Carl Rogers fixed process It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. Carl Rogers passing-judgment elements seems 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 unnoticed accepting moving There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities. Carl Rogers levels movement flow what is most personal is most universal Carl Rogers universal When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. Carl Rogers psychology optimistic people The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism Carl Rogers organisms tendencies strive Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me. Carl Rogers becoming return ideas Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself. Carl Rogers real bridges islands True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought". Carl Rogers empathy quality evil If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable. Carl Rogers majority self-esteem people Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. Carl Rogers effective-listening empathy men 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 adults teaching It's an awful risky thing to live Carl Rogers awful Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable. Carl Rogers unpredictable health behavior The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over. Carl Rogers elements impossible needs
