Eric Berne Quotes

• A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.'
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Forty's kind of like New Year's. It's an age to think about what you've done up till now, and what you ought to do in the future.
• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
• No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
• 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.
• The only time human beings are sane is the 10 minutes after intercourse.

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