Emily

“I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Encounter Groups

“The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy—man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming A Person: A Therapist's View on Psychotherapy, Humanistic Psychology, and the Path to Personal Growth

“Pain provides an opportunity for heroism; the opportunity is seized with surprising frequency.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“So, here we are, all of us poor bewildered darlings, wandering adrift in a universe too big and too complex for us, clasping and ricochetting off other people too different and too perplexing for us, and seeking to satisfy myriad, shifting, vague needs and desires, both mean and exalted. And sometimes we mesh. Don't we?

- Attributed to James Flynn, Ph.D. ”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Encounter Groups