Quotes from Fritz 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.

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.

Don't push the river, it flows by itself

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.

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 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.