Quotes About Coexistence

The mind naturally seeks harmony when presented with two opposing principles.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion?

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

Es necesario notar – dice Rumi – que cosas antagónicas trabajan juntas, aunque nominalmente sean opuestas.

Make mankind your dwelling place.

Haz de la humanidad tu morada.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide and long perspective, one thing is very clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around, and the only way we can protect ourselves and thrive is by learning how to live with the whole in harmony.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

There's as much benefit to wishing the world away as there is in demanding a bud to bloom," responded Iphigenia as she patted Prue's hand gently. "It's better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

Allowing him to flourish is killing my chance to flower.

Hawks and eagles don't fly together. They are of totally different kind.

She drove back to the harbor, where she had lived in Erie own all of her adult life. Across the bridge and into "the land of her people," Aunt Lizzie like to say. So ridiculous, really. Why shouldn't the Italians live with the Irish, and the blacks and Puerto Ricans, for that matter? The men worked together, and sometimes drank in the same bars. They all cheated on their wives, too, and the women kept putting up with them no matter how you pronounce their last names.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

the past, present and future all exist but not at the same times. In

The Muslim, the modernist, and the Christian each believes that his or her story alone is the true story of the world, that the Enlightenment story of human progress, or the Koran, or the Bible will ultimately be acknowledged by all to be true. But note that these stories cannot coexist as uniquely true. We must choose.

hatred has a poor shelf life but that hope and love can limp along together forever.

Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Everything else is concrete. Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch elm disease wiped out the entire species on the East Coast except for a lone tree in Manhattan surrounded by concrete. Is this, she wonders, how we'll all survive?

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

If we look and listen a little more carefully, we can release ourselves from the constraints of predetermined judgment, and open ourselves up to expanded awareness of multiple coexisting harmonious meanings.

It is a queer little world that inhabits these quarters – speaking every known dialect of the British Isles – but they get on together marvellously well considering their propinquity, and there is a warm welcome at every door.