Theodor Reik Quotes

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

To be happy, make other people happy.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.

Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life. Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.