Quotes About Harmony

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

Moyo kabla ya silaha

If you want to know one of my most fundamental convictions, it is that I am completely non-racialist. I do not understand racialism at all.

Will before weapons

I am an individual and I respect my own individuality. But I am an individual and a member of a community. And a community has conditions. All the commandments - Thou Shalt Not - are about community

The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life.

Our cooking depends upon shadows and is inseparable from darkness

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose. It always stands apart from the main building, at the end of a corridor, in a grove fragrant with leaves and moss. No words can describe that sensation as one sits in the dim light, basking in the faint glow reflected from the shoji, lost in meditation or gazing out at the garden.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Let's just breathe together until the last breath

LGBT members of society need not prove their legitimacy but only live significant lives that bring us all together.

We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.

Sometimes, Carter told her, you got to let a garden tend itself.

Any system that is not self-sustaining tends to oppose natural flow; and failure to auto-correct leads to self-destruction to give rise to a new system(s) to restore the balance.

Whatever humanity inflicts on itself, nature can always go one better.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.