I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those commu… - Carl Rogers

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle … knowledge exists primarily for use.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

Yet the paradoxical aspect of my experience is that the more I am simply willing to be myself, in all this complexity of life and the more I am willing to understand and accept the realities in myself and in the other person, the more change seems to be stirred up. It is a very paradoxical thing — that to the degree that each one of us is willing to be himself, then he finds not only himself changing; but he finds that other people to whom he relates are also changing. At least this is a very vivid part of my experience, and one of the deepest things I think I have learned in my personal and professional life.