Paul Tournier Quotes

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

The wise are wise only because they love.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.