Frederick Salomon Perls Quotes
...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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
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.
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.