Fritz Perls Quotes

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Learn what you are and be such.

Human improvement is from within outward.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.