Frederick Salomon Perls Quotes

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Lose your mind and come to your senses.

Frederick Salomon Perls
Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you
are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each
other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Beautiful, Expectations, World

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Thinking, Mirrors, House

Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Fighting

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
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Wise, Men, Differences

Fear is excitement without the breath.

Frederick Salomon Perls
Fear, Excitement, Breaths

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Giving Up, Giving, Persons

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I
felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?
Frederick Salomon Perls
Happiness, Long, Gestalt

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

Frederick Salomon Perls
Things Change

Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.

Frederick Salomon Perls
Teaching, Mean, Shows

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our selfesteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make
everybody your judge.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Encouragement, Self Esteem, Judging

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms,
how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch
with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Responsibility, Growth, Conformity

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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the
infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Mean, Responsibility, Past

There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for
yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by
taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We
touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Responsibility, Movement, Gains

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Frederick Salomon Perls
Anxiety, Fearless, Gaps

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Frederick Salomon Perls
Bored, Attention, Pay Attention

Awareness in itself is healing.

Frederick Salomon Perls
Healing, Awareness

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Fractions, Aim, Impart

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

Frederick Salomon Perls
Gestalt, Achieve, Stage

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty
room".
Frederick Salomon Perls
Flower, Empty Rooms, Desert

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself
because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
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Frederick Salomon Perls

Pride, Discovery, Gestalt

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must
live up to mine.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Life, Motivational, Positivity

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out
fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Appreciation, Fighting, Two

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Dream, Believe, Messages

So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have
away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing
yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh
second
Frederick Salomon Perls
Attitude, Growing, Peculiar

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Frederick Salomon Perls

Born: July 8, 1893

Died: March 14, 1970
Occupation: Psychiatrist
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