Carl R. Rogers

Quotes

• “So, here we are, all of us poor bewildered darlings, wandering adrift in a universe too big and too complex for us, clas...”
• “If awareness and conscious thought are seen as a part of life - not its master nor its opponent but an illumination of t...”
• “In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would p...”
• “I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I sho...”
• “When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It ...”
• “When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to ...”
• “When the locus of evaluation is seen as residing in the expert, it would appear that the long-range social implications ...”
• “The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided and contr...”
• “I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in ...”
• “The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in our...”
• “I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful...”
• “I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West”
• “The strongest force in our universe is not overriding power, but love.”
• “We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself.”
• “What is most personal is most universal.”