Carl Rogers Quotes

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.

The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.

Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound disconnection. It is not easy to recognize the pain such a person is in, especially because they may not be conscious of it themselves. They may present themselves to the world as just fine. If you believe human beings have a potential for deep connection, wisdom and love; the limitation in those peoples' lives becomes clearer.

We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.