"We are born princes and the civilizing process……" — Eric Berne
"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."
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16 Quotes by Eric Berne
Eric Berne has 16 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no…
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Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be…
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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives…
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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
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Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to…
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Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.
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Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the…
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Love is nature's psychotherapy.
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No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
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A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.
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Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience…
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More Birth Quotes
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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