Quotes About Harmony

The thing we have in common is our diversity.

We yearn to find things that are common to all human beings, around which we can come together. But underlying that yearning is the desire for people to be the same, to be the same as us, to affirm our way of seeing things. And that's the trap.

Adolf Hitler had also wanted a one-people event. His way of doing it was to eliminate diversity. He created hundreds of places like Auschwitz and Birkenau where he could destroy diversity and create one people who looked the same, thought the same, lived the same. But he couldn't do it. Because the one thing we ultimately have in common is that we're all different.

When you see people in terms of race or religion, that's when the trouble starts. I don't understand why people work so hard at pointing out our differences; we should be celebrating the things we have in common.

In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.

Succesul în afaceri se bazeaz? pe succesul profund în a primi viata ?i a fi în acord cu ea.

Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence.

L'avenir appartient à la gentillesse.

People differ, and, probably, will always differ, as to the light in which they regard war. A

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The only thing that can win over evil is love. Learn to love, strive to love, cause we ain't got time for nothing else.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, prologue (1944).

Singer: It may be a mistake to mix different wines, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Noble Eightfold Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

But through this Armageddon the world will pass into a realm of peace, of brotherhood, of co-operation, and will forget the darkness and the terrors of the night in the joy that cometh in the morning.

What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working to help make the prairie nice.

The rhythm of sunrise, the rhythm of sunset, filled her life.

I love to sing! I think nearly everyone does....We are rhythmical animals, from our heartbeats to our cycles of eating and sleeping, and when we create rhythms, we're in harmony with our bodies.