Robert James Waller Quotes

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

You're my existence. I'm yours

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

No one person is an island.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

They were connected, one being, fused together. She belonged to him, and he to her.

We belong to each other.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.