In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. – Carl Rogers
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. – Carl Rogers
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. – Carl Rogers
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? – Carl Rogers