Paul Tillich Quotes

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

If you are sitting on the couch with the TV off, and you are looking into each other's eyes and talking, that is quality time - so is taking a walk or going out to eat, so long as you are communicating with each other.

I just want us to understand each other. That's the point of my music.

I'm a big believer in communication.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

Talk to the tree, make friends with it.

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?