Emilis Kuke

“I observe first that characteristically the client shows a tendency to move away, hesitantly and fearfully, from a self that he is not. In other words even though there maybe no recognition of what he might be moving toward, he is moving away from something. And of course in so doing he is beginning to define, however negatively, what he is.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“<...> the persons who get to the consulting rooms of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts are not a cross-section of the population. By and large they are the ones for whom the conventional pretenses and defenses of the society no longer work. Very often they are the more sensitive and gifted members of the society; they need to get help, broadly speaking, because they are less successful at rationalizing than the “well-adjusted” citizen who is able for the time being to cover up his underlying conflicts.”
― Rollo May

“Small wonder that we prefer to approach therapy with many rigid preconceptions. We feel we must bring order to it. We can scarcely dare to hope that we can discover order in it.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy