Quotes About Harmony

Peace is actually a troublesome beast. (...) It is hard to produce, but maintaining it is hard to impossible.

Tu ne trouveras pas de lumière sans ombres, elles sont indissociable comme l'amour et la haine

The temple bell stops But the sound keeps coming out of the flowers

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's knowledge of itself is in harmony with a person's dreams.

If your hobbies are different, you can try talking about food or family. Eventually you'll find something you both agree on because everyone can relate in some way. It could be that you are able to relate to the other person's family life. Are you the eldest child or the youngest? It could be that both of you have similar experiences when it comes to family.

People are drawn to others with positive energy. Why? Naturally, people feel better around people who can see the good in situations as opposed

Life adapted to the laws of physics, not vice versa.

The middle ages did not care much for alphabetical order, because they were committed to rational order. To the medieval mind, the universe [is] a harmonious whole whose parts are related to one another. It was the responsibility of the author or scholar to discern these rational relationships -- of hierarchy, or of chronology, or of similarities and differences, and so forth.

the first good thing is the goodness of nature."40 Here she tells us to get out of our own stuckness with the human condition and open our eyes and hearts to the abundant goodness found in nature.

God loves all that he has created. And so anyone who, in loving God, loves all his fellow creatures loves all that is.

goodness surrounds us in the manifestation of all of nature but it also flows through us on a regular basis; it is Spirit at work in and through us.

The sin of acedia is cutting ourselves off from the rest of the universe, cutting ourselves off from... really, the music of the universe... We cut ourselves off from that and we ourselves are listless and without music.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

There's an Oriental saying I like: "If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

The more we understand about life, in general, the more we value the lives of all creatures. -Paul Johnson, British historian

From Africa to the western United States to the story of the rainforest of the Amazon, it is the fate of many wild creatures either to be unwanted by men or wanted too much, despised as a means to progress or desired as a means to progress - beloved and brutalized all at once, like the elephant and whale and dolphin.

If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organization are at odds, the architecture of the organization wins.

May every moment of my life and of the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

She stood back and examined the overall effect, then tweaked until the arrangement was just right. Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.

A stream cut across the grass, and tree branches flowed low to the ground, like a curtain of green fluid. The sound of the water stressed the silence. The distant cut of open sky made the place seem more hidden. Far above, on the crest of a hill, one tree caught the first rays of sunlight.

They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication.

We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.