QUOTES BY Carl Rogers

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

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

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

What I am and what I feel are good enough to be a basis for therapy, if I can transparently be what I am and what I feel in relationshipto him. Then perhaps he can be what he is, openly and without fear.

I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

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 bit on the right hand corner"… I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.