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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
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Oak Park
Illinois
Carl Ransom Rogers
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