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

Carl Rogers

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Carl Rogers
Age: 85 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 8
Died: 1987
Died: February 4
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Oak Park
Illinois
Carl Ransom Rogers
Process
Psychologist
Inspirational
Destination
States
Fulfillment
Good
Psychology
Life
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Journey
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We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.
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Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.
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Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.
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It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.
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When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.
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Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.
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The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.
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The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
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We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.
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I prize the privilege of being alone.
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The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates Einstein formulating a theory of relativity the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat, a young author writing his first novel all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt to set them in some order of more or less Creative.
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What you are to be, you are now becoming.
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People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
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