Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Fritz Perls

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American psychologist Fritz Perls.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Fritz Perls

Friedrich Salomon Perls, better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Perls coined the term "Gestalt therapy" to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife, Laura Perls, in the 1940s and 1950s. Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute in 1964 and lived there until 1969.

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.
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
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.
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