Reik Quotes

#1. The ways of the Lord," I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant."
"Adler?"
"Theodor Reik, I think.

Robert B. Parker

#2. The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Theodor Reik

#3. He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

Theodor Reik

#4. Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

#5. There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

Theodor Reik

#6. It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

Theodor Reik

#7. Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

Theodor Reik

#8. The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Theodor Reik

#9. Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.

George W. Bush

#10. You have a wisdom inside you - listen for it. You have a light inside you - feel its glow. You have the power to speak and act and make things manifest in the world - let your wisdom and light guide you as you do.

Michael Neill

#11. The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Theodor Reik

#12. To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

Theodor Reik

#13. Most of us can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's, but few of us can build a better business system than McDonald's.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#14. Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

Zach Braff

#15. Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

Theodor Reik

#16. In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

Theodor Reik

#17. Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

Theodor Reik

#18. No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

Theodor Reik

#19. He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Theodor Reik

#20. That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me."
"Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking."
"They're wise to fear me.

Nora Roberts

#21. The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

Theodor Reik

#22. The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.

Theodor Reik

#23. You cannot put a bandaid on insanity.

The Paper Doll

#24. Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Theodor Reik

#25. Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Theodor Reik

#26. In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Theodor Reik

#27. I've always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that's the performer in me.

Danielle De Niese

#28. The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

Rob Reiner

#29. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Theodor Reik

#30. Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Theodor Reik

#31. We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Theodor Reik