Author of quotes: Eric Berne. Page 3

In General, it seems that there are two types of people: real and artificial, as people usually say children are the flowers. Real people make decisions, and artificial expect gifts of fate.

Man acts according to his script, because the script is fixed in his mind by parents at a very early age; he remains faithful to this scenario my entire life, even when physical parents voices forever silent. This is reminiscent of the computer record or a record that makes sounds in sequence many years later after whoever did this record, left the scene. And our man, meanwhile, sits at a piano and banging on the keys, and he has the illusion that he performs folk song or a Grand concert.

Wounds are painful, but it's nice when the wounds heal.

Awareness this is the ability to see a coffee Cup and hear the birds singing in their own way, and not as taught. With high probability we can assume that in adults and children vision and hearing is arranged and that in the first years of life in them more aesthetic and less intellectual. The little boy happily watching birds and listening to them. Then there is "good father" and believes he should "share" the experience and help his son "develop". He says: "This is Jay, and this is Sparrow." Since, as a boy will think, where's Jay, where's the Sparrow, he stops to see birds and hear them

Often playing with people who have lost mental balance; in General we can say that the more anxious a person is, the harder he plays.

A husband who is quite able to have Breakfast at an expensive restaurant, nevertheless, every morning, makes some sandwiches and carries to his office in a paper bag. For this, he uses a scrap of bread, the remains of yesterday's dinner and paper bags which saves for his wife. This gives him complete control over the finances of the family - a wife would dare buy herself a mink stole in the face of such sacrifice? The husband retrieves additional many benefits for example the opportunity to have Breakfast in solitude and work in the time saved. In many ways this is a constructive game that would have approved of Benjamin Franklin, as it encourages frugality, diligence and punctuality.

... When I write these lines, on my Desk crawling centipede. If you flip back, you can see what a huge effort she puts in to get back to his feet. In this time she has a "purpose of life". And when the centipede turns, it seems, you can almost see the look of triumph on her face. A wood louse crawls, and you can imagine how she tells her story at the next meeting of woodlice and looks at young shellfish down as having achieved your goal. But her smugness mixed with a tinge of disappointment. Now, when she reached the top, life seems devoid of purpose. Maybe that centipede will be back, hoping to repeat his triumph; should mark it back ink, to see when she decides to take a chance. Courageous crustaceans pill bugs. It is not surprising that the lives of many millions of years.

"Perfect friendship" is often based on the fact that the players complement each other very efficiently and with great satisfaction, so that in mutual games get maximum gain with minimum effort.

Better to be a slave of his beloved, than at the free unloved.

Anatomy makes a girl pretty or photogenic, but only the smile of a father lets her daughter's face Shine with beauty.

One thing in life more true than taxes, and as certain as death: the sooner you will have new friends, the more likely you will keep the old one.

With drugs you can survive anything, but do not understand.