Quotes About Harmony

This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.

Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.

A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

The garden was the most beautiful place Margherita had ever seen. In spring, it was a sea of delicate blossom. In summer, it was green and fruitful. In autumn, the trees blazed gold and red and orange, as vivid as Margherita's hair. Even in winter, it was beautiful, with bare branches against the old stone walls and green hedges in curves and curlicues about beds of winter-flowering herbs and flowers.

Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would never see how everything worked together.

But below the chaos of a single human life, you could trust that a cosmic breve was sounding.

Rather than seeing a contest between druid and Christian, I see a kinship between stone chapel and stone circle.

Rather than seeing a contest between druid and Christian, I see a kinship between stone chapel and stone circle. One encloses and protects the spirit; the other exposes it and joins it with the elements.

Which is exactly why we must have equal pay. That is all women want, Baxter. We don't want to eradicate all men from the earth, we just want to live side by side with our counterparts in harmony and independence, sharing their lives, as partners.

Music is a personal response to vibration.

From Taoism's yin yang and the M?ori takarangi to Buddhism's endless knot and the Celtic double spiral, each design invokes a continual dynamic dance between complementary forces.

A skilled kite surfer rides her surfboard across the rolling waves while catching the wind in her kite, and she must continually adjust—bending, dipping, and twisting her body—to maintain that dynamic interplay of the wind and the waves. That is just how GDP should come to move in the twenty-first century,

When Chief Oren Lyons of the Iroquois Onondaga Nation was invited to address students at the University of Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, he highlighted this risk. 'What you call resources we call our relatives,' he explained. 'If you can think in terms of relationships, you are going to treat them better, aren't you? . . . Get back to the relationship because that is your foundation for survival.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Listen to the Song of Life

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

when you sit in a forest everything appears still. But it isn't really. If you listen and watch closely, life is happening everywhere around you...In silence, life keeps raging on.

In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.

Peace is the art of co-existence

si nous avons assez d'une chose, à tort ou à raison, nous n'avons qu'à nous occuper d'une autre ; rien ne nous oblige à la vilipender ; qui s'est trop occupé d'Aristote peut aller jouer du violon

Don't push the river, it flows by itself

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe." ~ Frosty Wooldridge