Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

I need them as much as they need me.

The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.

For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

You're my existence. I'm yours

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.

Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life.