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It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

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
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Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.
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The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
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In my early professional 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?
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Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.
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Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.
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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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What you are to be, you are now becoming.
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I prize the privilege of being alone.
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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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People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
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Life is about Being & Becoming.
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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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Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?
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Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.
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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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If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.
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The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.
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Experience is the highest authority.
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