Quotes by Carl Rogers

Carl Rogers

“Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don’t hurt another’s physical person or property: The creative process is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual.”

Art

Being Yourself

Hurt

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

Attitude

Children

Thinking

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

Effort

Fields

Limits

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

Satisfying

Way

An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is “born with”, but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.

Empathy

Parent

Teacher

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

Experts

Know How

Perceive

Don’t be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle… knowledge exists primarily for use.

Rifles

Use

Wagons

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.

Bridges

Islands

Real

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

Empathy

Feelings

Understanding

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Authority

Highest

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Adults

Architect

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Attitude

Authority

Awful

Becoming

Behavior

Being Yourself

Believe

Blame

Bridges

Caring

Change

Children

Clients

Clouds

Communication

Degrees

Destination

Different

Diversity

Education

Educational

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Effort

Emotional

Empathy

Essence

Evidence

Experts

Facts

Feelings

Fields

Fixed

Flavor

Flow

Focus

Friendly

Goes On

Good Life

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Growing Knowledge

Growth

Hands

Health

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Quotes by Carl Rogers

Carl Rogers

“Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don’t hurt another’s physical person or property: The creative process is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual.”

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

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

Don’t be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle… knowledge exists primarily for use.

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.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

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