Frederick Salomon Perls Quotes

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• 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…
• I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
• 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…
• Fear is excitement without the breath.
• 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…
• The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
• 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…
• Anxiety is the gap between now and later.
• 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…
• We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.
• Awareness in itself is healing.
• 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…
• 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…
• I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.
• It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to…
• You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.
• 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.
• ...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…
• A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
• The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

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