Fritz Perls Quotes

I am definitely an individual.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I don't care! This is my life. I can't have anybody messing with my life. I just want to be Gerry Cooney, doing what I want to do. I want to be what I am. A fighter.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

Don't live your life to please other people.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

You need to be your own individual.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

Don't change for nobody.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.