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 Copy Share Image
“It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner… — Theodor Reik Copy Share
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. — Theodor Reik Copy Share
“The original restrictive meaning of sexual aberration which derives satisfaction from a passive relation to the partner has been retained. Masochism, however, has come… — Theodor Reik Copy Share
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik Copy Share
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death. — Theodor Reik Copy Share
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement.… — Theodor Reik Copy Share
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life. — Theodor Reik Copy Share
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. — Theodor Reik Copy Share
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. — Theodor Reik Copy Share
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang… — Theodor Reik Copy Share
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. — Theodor Reik Copy Share
“In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.” — Theodor Reik Copy Share
He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the… — Theodor Reik Copy Share
