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

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

Frederick Salomon Perls

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

Frederick Salomon Perls

...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.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Frederick Salomon Perls

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

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Awareness in itself is healing.

Frederick Salomon Perls

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Frederick Salomon Perls

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

As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing. . . playing helpless.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

Frederick Salomon Perls

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

Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.

Frederick Salomon Perls