Quotes About Harmony

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Quant à Mme Létourneau, sa pauvre âme timide, aimante et faible avait si longtemps cherché à mettre ces deux êtres d'accord qu'elle était devenue comme un miroir qui reflétait avec excès la vivacité de son fils et la grave dignité de son mari.

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind that you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

How many times can you look at something and know that everyone around you is seeing the same thing or at the very least that their brains and eyes are responding to the same phenomenon? How much proof do you ever have that we're all in the same world?

The universe, he felt, was just—or if not just, fair enough.

I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quite a kind of song.

She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.

They were at that rare moment in a collaboration where they were consistently grokking, where consensus was reached quickly on almost everything.

and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be.

Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests.

What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time?

Y si en un momento dado hubiese la misma proporción de felicidad e infelicidad en el mundo?

The old magic is returning, the powers of notes and intervals falling easily beneath her fingers.

What kind of guitar would he make for this pretty harper with her sweet voice and stranger manners, who appeared so young but who seemed at times so old? It would have to glow with all the luster of her hair, and he knew he would have to give to it the feeling of ancient forests, of standing stones, and misty downs. Nothing else would be appropriate. Noth else would fit.

You helped me with with that lullaby. I think I can help you with rock and roll.

Our survival as spiritual beings depends upon our ability to open our wild hearts in love and resonance with all of nature.

Selu teaches the Law of Respect, the law that helps people live in balance and harmony with nature and with each other—when you take, you have to give back.