Quotes by Eric Berne

“Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.”

“No man is a hero to his wifes psychiatrist”

“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 the designs of others.”

“A whole page of learned polysyllables may not convey as much as the statement that a certain woman is a bitch, or that a certain man is a jerk”

“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.”

“Anytime I am looking to somebody else as my source, Im coming from scarcity. I am no longer trusting God, or the Universe, for my harvest. Its reasonable for me to have expectations based on what somebody I trust has committed to. And its natural for me to feel disappointed when that somebody doesnt come through. But when I feel more than disappointment, when I also feel anger, its because I deviated from my truth. Its because I compromised my truth to get what somebody else promised. Because when Im really following my truth, I will be at peace with the consequences — whatever they are. I can accept somebody elses truth, but I must live my own truth. And sometimes that means walking away from a relationship.”

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.

But wether I am faking on a player piano, or striking the chords with the power of my own mind and hands, the song of my life is equally suspenseful and full of surprises as it rolls off the pulsating sounding board of destiny - a barcarole that either way will leave, I hope, happy echoes behind

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

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

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