Berne Quotes

#1. I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

Dennis Potter

#2. 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.

Eric Berne

#3. Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they're going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they're doing.

Eric Berne

#4. I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

Rick Moody

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

Eric Berne

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

Eric Berne

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

Eric Berne

#8. 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.

Eric Berne

#9. 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.

Eric Berne

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

Eric Berne

#11. 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.

Eric Berne

#12. What else could a person do, she thought, staring hard at the darkness, but try to be happy? However confused and wrong-looking the attempt might be. And then whatever happens afterward all you could do was bear it, because whatever you could not bear you had to carry.

Suzanne Berne

#13. Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

Scott Hamilton

#14. Love is nature's psychotherapy.

Eric Berne

#15. What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

Trey Anastasio

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

Eric Berne

#17. But still he remembered wondering, at the age of ten, is it better to be safe or to be free?

Lisa Berne

#18. Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

Liam O'Flaherty

#20. Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Eric Berne

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

Eric Berne

#22. 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.

Eric Berne

#23. Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Eric Berne

#24. In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.

Suzanne Berne

#25. Change was coming.
Change was coming, and it was good.

Lisa Berne

#26. A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.

Eric Berne

#27. Awkwardness with the boyfriend who tried to drown you because he thought he was his own dead brother who turned out not to be dead. Probably not a lot of advice lying around for this particular relationship problem -Hannah

Emma Carlson Berne

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

Eric Berne

#29. Because the terms "sufferers" and "victims" are objectionable, I have chosen the term "patient" by default.

Katrina Berne

#30. But weddings tend to resurrect old issues, old emotions; new ideas, new possibilities.

Lisa Berne

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

Eric Berne

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

Eric Berne

#33. I was definitely never a crowd pleaser.

Johnny Depp

#34. It was time to take action, to change her own story, to take life into her own hands.

Lisa Berne

#35. 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.

Eric Berne

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

Eric Berne