"When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard."

-- Carl Rogers

#Responsibility Quotes #Confusion Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.”

Source : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.358
“I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.”
“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.”
“Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.”
“I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.”
“WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.”
“The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.”

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