I’ve always felt I had to do things because they were expected of me, or more important, to make people like me. The hell with it! I think from now o… - Carl Rogers

Gradually my experience has forced me to conclude that the individual has within himself the capacity and the tendency, latent if not evident, to move forward toward maturity. In a suitable psychological climate this tendency is released, and becomes actual rather than potential. It is evident in the capacity of the individual to understand those aspects of his life and of himself which are causing him pain and dissatisfaction, an understanding which probes beneath his conscious knowledge of himself into those experiences which he has hidden from himself because of their threatening nature. It shows itself in the tendency to reorganize his personality and his relationship to life in ways which are regarded as more mature.

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.

"The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself."