The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
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More quotes by Carl Rogers
- The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
- The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
- The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
- 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?
- The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.