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There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words: love and achievement. In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
-Theodor Reik
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Humanity
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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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Love
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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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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
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Men & Women
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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
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Psychiatry
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Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
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Books by and about Theodor Reik