Perls Fritz Quotes

#1. One man's flash of lightning, ripping through the air, is another's passing glare. Hardly there.

Kate Tempest

#2. The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

Andrew Motion

#4. Solaris a blaze of freedom raging.

R.J. Askew

#5. I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

Charlaine Harris

#6. In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden.

Richard Engel

#7. We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Barack Obama

#8. Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

S.E. Hinton

#10. Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

Keith Green

#12. There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

Fred Allen

#13. Nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#14. 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.

Fritz Perls

#15. Learning is the discovery that something is possible

Frederick Salomon Perls

#16. Othello is about many different kinds of love: it's about the light, beautiful side of love, and it's about the twisted, darker side of love, and it's about how, if you flip the emotional coin, love can make you do terrible things. (James Earl Jones)

Susannah Carson

#17. I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.

Rebecca Stead

#18. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.

Antony Sher

#19. High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon