Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.
Eric BerneAwareness 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 BerneSuch a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others
Eric BerneEach 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