28 Quotes by Frederick Salomon Perls

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

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.

Those that fight don’t listen, those that listen don’t fight.

Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.

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.

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

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.