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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
Elements
Seem
Someone
Become
Seems
Soluble
Insoluble
Listens
Astonishing

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Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.
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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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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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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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True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought.
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