Carl Rogers Quotes

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I've never been more normal than I am now.

I came to love, I came into my own.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.

You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.