Quotes About Harmony

I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.

This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.

I do what I have always done. I reach across and bring the worlds together.

I'd had more than my share of beautiful today. Tomorrow I'd give some back, restore and replenish the world.

What if opposites could be combined and transcended, paradox embraced, a whole life lived in contradictory case?

All is well--or could be, if we worked to make it so. We were the fingers of the world, putting itself to rights.

Once you glimpsed the truth about yourself, your understanding was complete and you could finally be at piece.

Can you not see that it's no longer a question of dragon versus human? The division now is between those who think this peace is worth preserving and those who would keep us at war until one side or the other is destroyed.

Nothing in the world like the spark between men and women. What a marvelous and mysterious combination. Two sides of the same coin, you know. We both want the same thing, to give and receive love, to be cared for, respected. We just come at it from a different point of view.

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

we're gathered here with

You know what I figured out during the last week?" he asked. "What?" "Snow and winter, they go together." I snuggled more closely against him. "Yeah, we do." Sneaux and Wynter--we definitely go together.

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way in which we go to the grocery store may tell us everything about the way in which we live a life. The way we tend the life force in a plant may be the way we tend our own life force. We are exquisitely coherent.

Love is infinitely more powerful than hate,

Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure. I believe that's what heaven's going to be like..." p 55

You don't have to be friends with everybody, you just can't be unkind to anybody.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

I have learned that the things that divide us are far less important than those that connect us.

If every one of us will work, strenuously and continuously, until each has purged his heart of every trace of resentment against every person, who has, he thinks, injured him, we shall then find, perhaps to our surprise, that Peace is reigning over the whole world.2

I want a perfect garden.... I want a perfect soul

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.