Theodor 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 law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

John Selden

#3. What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

Edmund White

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

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#5. Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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#7. Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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#9. I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.

Khloe Kardashian

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

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

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#12. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Sanders

#13. He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

Allan Dare Pearce

#14. 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

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

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

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

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#18. He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

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#19. I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did,

Aaron Schock

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

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#21. We're talking about a tentacled flying lamp fucker, Dave. What are you prepared to call unlikely?

David Wong

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

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

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

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#25. Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

Livy

#26. Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

Octavio Paz

#27. Fuck up, own up, and then get up.

Penelope Douglas

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

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

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

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#31. There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.

David Cameron

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

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#33. I believe in miracles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. 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.

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#35. 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.

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

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

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