"We are always looking for a grand program……" — Paul Tournier
"We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas."
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33 Quotes by Paul Tournier
Paul Tournier has 33 quotes on this site.
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Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to…
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Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
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The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge…
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Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all…
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In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order…
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The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a…
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There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a…
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The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the…
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I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone…
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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
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The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely…
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The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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