Quotes About Harmony

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me.

We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space.

Multiplicity which is not reduced to unity is confusion. Unity which does not depend on multiplicity is tyranny.

Ne quid nimis

Cea mai puternic? surs? de erori este r?zboiul între simÈ›uri È™i raÈ›iune.

I love to run my fingers o'er the keys, the ivories.

People think of nature as something separate from us. Nature is a park, or someplace you go on vacation. But nature is all around us. It is part of us. It can help us with our problems. People don't think that but it's true.

No matter what we do, Nature remains our protector. Even as we ignore it, contamine it, destroy it, Nature offers us sympathy and love. It comforts us in our darkest hours. We do not deserve this. And still it is offered.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

Music is truthful… Music attracts the angels in the universe.

It was like he'd been born and raised on Walden Pond where everything was hunky-dory, and I'd come out of the dark demonic woods, same forest, just a different way of looking at things.

Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.

Only dumb guys fight'

The Golden Proportion, sometimes called the Divine Proportion, has come down to us from the beginning of creation. The harmony of this ancient proportion, built into the very structure of creation, can be unlocked with the 'key' ... 528, opening to us its marvelous beauty. Plato called it the most binding of all mathematical relations, and the key to the physics of the cosmos.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are! - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet. Perhaps their surrounding world, the strangers they met in the street, the wide expanses they saw on their walks, the rooms in which they lived or met, took more delight in their love than they themselves did.