Quotes About Connection

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

La vie à deux consiste presque essentiellement à attendre l'autre.

is greater than the means. What is the use of having faith? It is to connect the soul with God. And what is the object of connecting man with God? That he may become like God. But God is Love. Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love, the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater than faith. "If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Love is greater than faith, because the end is greater than the means. What is the use of having faith? It is to connect the soul with God. And what is the object of connecting man with God? That he may become like God. But God is Love. Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love, the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater than faith. "If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.