Éric Berne citations

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

“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 what he’ll do if he wins but knows what he’ll do if he loses.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

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