Paul Tournier

“There is a great difference between a happy life and a fulfilled life.”

“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”

“The meaning of marriage is not merely to have children. It is to help each other to full stature, to become complete human beings.”

“Marriage is not a haven, but a workshop.”

“All the men and women whom I have known to be great have been so because they have been able to kill their own pride.”

“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”

“The great sickness of our age is aimlessness, boredom, and lack of meaning.”

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force... When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

“At the heart of all our problems is a problem of relationship.”

“To be understood is a deep need of the human heart.”

“Love is not a state, a feeling, a sentiment. It is an action, a participation, a communion.”

“To be a person is to be a story.”

“A real person is one who has learned to love and to be loved.”

“It is in dialogue with another that I become myself.”

“True contact between beings is established only by the speech of the heart.”

“We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.”