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“Lose your mind and come to your senses.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Philosophy #Medicine #Mind
“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 #Relief
“Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Teaching #Mean #Shows
“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
“Anxiety is the gap between now and later.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Anxiety #Fearless #Gaps
“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
“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

#Stupid #Two #Listening
“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

#Running #Games #Self
“Awareness in itself is healing.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Healing #Awareness
“We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Thinking #Mirrors #House
“I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Wall #People #Use
“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 pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Guilt #Opponents #Might
“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
“The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Wise #Men #Differences
“...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

#Pride #Discovery
“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Flower #Rooms #Faces
“I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Fractions #Aim
“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 #Differences
“I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Dream #Believe #Essentials
“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
“Fear is excitement without the breath.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Fear #Excitement
“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

#Encouragement #Self Esteem #Judging
“You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.”
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Achieve #Stage

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