Frederick Salomon Perls > Quotes

“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.”
― Fritz Perls

“Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
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, then it is beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.”
― Frederick Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim

“Lose your mind and come to your senses.”
― Fritz 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.”
― Fritz Perls

“The person most in control is the person who can give up control.”
― Fritz Perls

“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”
― Fritz 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.”
― Fritz Perls

“Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.”
― Fritz Perls

“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.”
― Fritz Perls

“Learning is the discovery that something is possible”
― Fritz Perls

“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?”
― Fritz Perls

“I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.”
― fritz perls

“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.”
― Fritz Perls, The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy

“Don't push the river, it flows by itself.”
― Frederick S. Perls

“Man transcends himself only via his true nature, not through ambition and artificial goals.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy

“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 me. And if by chance we find each other, it will be beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”
― Fritz Perls

“Thomas Jefferson thought that the United States ought to have a revolution every generation so that democracy could periodically purge itself of contaminants. He meant political revolutions; we have watered down his advice and created a succession of “lifestyle” revolutions instead. Just at the point when a radical innovation or movement might begin to elicit significant discussion within our social order, it makes the cover of Time and receives testimonials from one or two Hollywood stars. Thus elevated into harmlessness, it is soon discarded, leaving little more than a vague, residual stain on our cultural fashions.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim

“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”
― Fritz Perls

“Y si uno se niega a recordar sus sueños, uno se niega realmente a encarar su propia existencia -a encarar lo que está mal en su existencia. Uno evita luchar con asuntos desagradables.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Sueños y existencia

“Every individual, every plant, every animal
has only one inborn goal—to actualize itself as it is.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim

“We must, for instance, face the fact that we blandly commit what to the experimentalist is the most unpardonable of sins: we include the experimenter in the experiment!”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality

“Las emociones no son molestias que deban ser descargadas. Las emociones son los motores más importantes de nuestro comportamiento: emoción en el sentido más amplio -la espera, el goce, el hambre. Estas emociones o energía básica, esta fuerza vital, aparentemente se diferencian en el organismo por lo que llamo la diferenciación”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Sueños y existencia

“Психотик говорит: «Я – Авраам Линкольн», невротик: «Мне бы хотелось быть таким, как Авраам Линкольн», здоровый: «Я – таковой, какой я есть».”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, In and Out the Garbage Pail

“Apart from detailed analysis and taking apart (destruction), there can be no close contact, excited discovery, and true love of any object (which, as we use the term, always includes persons).”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality

“By remaining alert in the centre, we can acquire a creative ability of seeing both sides of an occurrence and completing an incomplete half.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Ego, Hunger and Aggression

“Awareness is like the glow of a coal which comes from its own combustion... In awareness a process is taking place in the coal (the total organism).”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality

“La angustia es siempre resultado del alejarse del ahora.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Sueños y existencia

“Alimentan su computadora, el intelecto. Y el intelecto es la punta de la inteligencia. Un estorbo en la vida.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Sueños y existencia

“Todas las emociones se expresan en el sistema muscular. No se puede visualizar la ira sin movimiento muscular. No se puede visualizar la alegría, que es más o menos idéntica al danzar, sin movimientos musculares. En la pena hay sollozos y llanto, y en el sexo también hay”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Sueños y existencia

“Es muy raro que las personas puedan hablar y escuchar. Muy pocas escuchan sin hablar. La mayoría puede hablar sin escuchar.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Sueños y existencia