Carl R. Rogers: Quotes about change

Carl R. Rogers was American psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on change.
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Carl R. Rogers quote: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

Carl R. Rogers

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Change

“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”

Carl R. Rogers

Source: On Becoming a Person

Change

“If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual”

Carl R. Rogers

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Fear , Understanding , Change , Personality

“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 R. Rogers
Way , Question , Change , Personality

“a person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.”

Carl R. Rogers

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Change , Personality