Quotes About Harmony

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 landscapes drawn up for them to see on their walks, the rooms in which they lived and loved, were even more pleased with their love than they were themselves.

The wood echoed to the hoarse ringing of other saws; somewhere, very far away, a nightingale was trying out its voice, and at longer intervals a blackbird whistled as if blowing dust out of a flute. Even the engine steam rose into the sky warbling like milk boiling up on a nursery alchohol stove.

I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's speciality seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish.

L'arte è nell'erba e bisogna avere l'umiltà di chinarsi a raccoglierla»

Boris Pasternak

Et tout rentra dans l'ordre, pourtant déjà bien plein.

Le soir venait. Il les vit et s'arrêta près d'eux pour ne pas les troubler.

We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.

I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations' ~George O'dowd

A compleat gentleman seeks a harmonious union of body and soul, and if his will—his soul—is strong then his body ought to be strong as well.

There are very few things in the world as pleasing to the ear as English spoken by a Russian woman.

Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a sheep inland or the barking of a dog in the town was distinctly heard, and the band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a dischord in the great harmony of nature's silence. A little after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming.

He who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws.

The trees, the stones and the earth had taken him inside themselves, but in their shape it was possible still to discern something of the man he had once been.

But when the fairy sang, the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself. Stephen

Another room was almost empty except for a doll's house standing on a table in the middle of the floor; the doll's house was an exact copy of the real house–except that inside the doll's house a number of smartly dressed dolls were enjoying a peaceful and rational existence together...

I must not become so absorbed in my scientific work that I forget to fish and end up with nothing to eat.

When night fell, I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them

Perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's Self; and from my soul do I pity the selfish churl, who, remembering the little bickerings of anger, envy, and fifty other disagreeables to which frail mortality is subject, would wish to revenge the affront which pride whispers him he has received.

Ich begann zu begreifen, dass es eine Welt in meinem Kopf gab und eine andere draussen und dass diese beiden Welten nur sehr selten auf die glücklich Idee kamen zusammenzufallen.

I've found that it's easier to be pleasant when there's less need to be so.

I'm glad to be a planet orbiting in the light of your sun

Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?