Eric Berne Quotes

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• A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about…
• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or…
• We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
• Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his…
• Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with…
• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
• Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.
• Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.
• Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.
• Love is nature's psychotherapy.
• No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
• A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.
• Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others
• The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.
• Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
• The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

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