carl rogers

“ 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, ”

“ Life, at its best, is a fluid and changing process in which nothing is fixed. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ”

“ I have gradually come to one negative conclusion about the good life. It seems to me that the good life is not any fixed state. ”

“ One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. ”

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

“ What is most personal is most universal. ”

“ In my early professionals years, I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? ”