Theodor Reik Quotes

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

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

There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

Success has nothing to do with happiness.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.

It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

I feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.