Eric Berne Quotes

Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

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 hear them sing.

Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.

A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

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.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

Love is nature's psychotherapy.

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.