Top 6 Dave Mearns Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client’s appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.”

— Dave Mearns

2. “Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual’s exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others – they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.”

— Dave Mearns

3. “What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.”

— Dave Mearns

4. “Criticism hurts most because it comes from another person and abuse is most damaging when it comes from someone who should love us.”

— Dave Mearns

5. “In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.”

— Dave Mearns

6. “The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.”

— Dave Mearns

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