Quotes About Connection

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

A man is related to all nature.

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 . . .

Adopt the pace of nature.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Love is the essence of God.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag.

We're all just walking each other home.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.