So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second
Frederick Salomon PerlsYou 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 PerlsHumans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
Frederick Salomon PerlsOur 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 PerlsThere's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.
Frederick Salomon Perls