Gabriel Marcel

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“To love a person is to say to them: 'You will not die.'”

“Hope is a memory of the future.”

“My freedom is not and cannot be something that I observe as I observe an external fact; my freedom is not a given, it is a conquest.”

“A real person is one who is capable of being attentive to another.”

“To exist is to participate.”

“Charity is the gift of ourselves.”

“Mystery is a problem that encroaches upon its own data.”

“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.”

“The human being who is unavailable is the one who is encumbered with himself.”

“Hope is the act by which the temptation to despair is actively overcome.”

“The smart man looks for purpose in the object. The wise man looks for purpose in himself.”

“Every genuine relationship is a risk.”

“We live in a broken world. But it is also a world of grace.”

“Man is a being who is in search of a meaning that he does not create.”