Quotes about Connection
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is related to all nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the essence of God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson