Quotes of Theodore Reik

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

- Theodore Reik

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“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours. ”

- Mandy Hale

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ If you want a future that makes you happy, if you want a world that you’re excited about, get your ass out there and earn it. ”

- Tom Bilyeu

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot. ”

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works, and the only label that mattered was that I was in love. Totally, fully, ecstatically. ”

- Bill Konigsberg

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett