Rogers was born in 1902 in Oak Park, IL, as the fourth child of six children. His father was a civil engineer, and his mother was a housewife. Rogers went on to do very well in school, even skipping two grades—kindergarten and first grade. Initially, he was going to go to college for theology, enrolling in a seminary college. However, he started to question his faith after attending a student seminar on religion, and was inspired to make the move over to psychology after taking a course taught by Leta Stetter Hollingworth, who is best known for researching “gifted” children and studying the psychology of women.
So in today’s quote, Rogers speaks about the concept of accepting yourself where you’re at in that growing process. And in doing so, you’re able to continue evolving and changing.
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Quote of the Day by Carl Rogers
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This quote comes from Rogers’s book On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy. It’s in the first chapter, called “This Is Me,” under Part I, “Speaking Personally.” In this chapter, he talks about the “development of [his] professional thinking and personal philosophy,” and it combines two of his talks that he considers “very personal.”
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Right before the above quote, he writes that “this must seem to some like a very strange direction in which to move.” But he then explains that it “seems” to him “to have value,” because: "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
So, with his beliefs and the meaning behind his main theories as context, this quote means exactly what it says: you can’t continue to learn and grow if you can’t accept yourself for where you are right now. With all your flaws and failures, in your incompleteness and humanity, you need to accept yourself for every bit of it. Because once you’re honest with yourself about where you are and who you are, you’ll know what work you need to do to transform. You can change and evolve into a better version of yourself once you know what you need to work on.
More Quotes from Carl Rogers
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, ‘Soften the orange a bit on the right-hand corner.’ I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”“What is most personal is most universal.”“What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.”“a person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.”“I'm not perfect... But I'm enough.”Up Next:
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