52 Quotes by Eric Berne

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

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.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.