I leave you 18 quotes of Carl Rogers Influential psychologist in American history, who along with Abraham Maslow would come to found the humanist approach in psychology.
He is the author of more than 10 books on psychotherapy and psychology. Between them The process of becoming a person (1979), Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy (1942/1978) or Customer-centered psychotherapy (1951).
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1-The only educated person is the one who has learned to learn and change.
2-The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I can change.
3-The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is an address not a destination.
4-We can not change, we can not get away from who we are until we accept what we are. Then the change seems to go almost unnoticed.
5-In my early professional years I asked this question: How can you treat, cure or change this person? Now I would ask the question this way: How can I provide a relationship that this person can use for his own personal growth?
6-The very essence of creativity is its novelty, and therefore we have no standard to judge it.
7-It is not that this approach of power to the person, is that he never takes it away.
8-When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I'm optimistic.
9-What is more personal is more universal.
10-There is address but there is no destination.
11-The extent to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate people, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
12-The only thing I know is that anyone who wants to learn to learn.
13-In my relationships with people I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as if it were something that I am not.
14- Neither the Bible, nor the prophets, nor the revelations of God or men, have anything over my direct experience.
fifteen- A person, finding that he is loved for being as he is, and not for what he pretends to be, will feel that he deserves respect and love.
16-You can not be afraid of death, in fact, you can only be afraid of life.
17-It seems to me that anything that can be taught to another is relatively inconsequential, and has little or no significant influence on behavior.
18- I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static, I would live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear, and emotional ups and downs, for that is the price I am willing to pay for a fluid, perplexing, and exciting life.