Fritz Perls Quotes

Don't live your life to please other people.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don't tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don't have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I'm gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don't wanna be defined.

Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

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.

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

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.

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

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

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

I have to be myself.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

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.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

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

I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

I want people to feel the freedom to be themselves.