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“Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.”
― Eric Berne, Games people play: The psychology of human relationships

“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”
― Eric Berne, Games People Play

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

“As this is written, a sow bug crawls across a desk. If he is turned over on his back, one can observe the tremendous struggle he goes through to get on his feet again. During this interval he has a ‘purpose’ in his life. When he succeeds, one can almost see the look of victory on his face. Off he goes, and one can imagine him telling his tale at the next meeting of sow bugs, looked up to by the younger generation as an insect who has made it. And”
― Eric Berne, Games people play: The psychology of human relationships