Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
845
AUTHOR:
Theodor Reik (1888–1969)
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
THEODOR REIK, A Psychologist Looks at Love, chapter 3, final page, in Of Love and Lust, p. 194 (1957).
