Paul Tournier

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

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

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

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

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

“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”