Carl Rogers
American Psychologist
1902 – 1987
Carl Rogers' Famous Quotes
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud colour. I don’t do that. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.”
“It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.”
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”
“Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?”
“We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.”
“Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.”
