Quotes About Harmony

It is possible to climb life's mountain from any side, but when the top is reached the trails converge. p73

There is an old saying that goes 'Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man'. It is also said, 'Two hands must meet to make a sound'. The atrocities that happened here weren't carried out by strangers - it was us, the people who'd once lived together harmoniously in the same village. They say it was the superstitious freaks who did it. No, it was Satan who did it. Come now, what sort of a ghost is that? Ryu Yosop replied, It is the black thing that lives in the heart of every man.

I believe firmly... that science can never contradict true religion, and that if they seem at variance, then that is due to our faulty understanding of one or the other. God gave us the Bible and he gave us nature to show his creation; it is absurd to think he might contradict himself. It is man who fails.

Life, like a good painting, needs balance, a harmonious arrangement to avoid being chaotic, a mess, a failure.

The dance of capital, the harmony of a balance sheet, and the way these abstractions interact with people, their characters and desires, either as individuals or in a mass. Understand that one is the other, that they are two separate ways of expressing the same thing, and you understand the whole nature of business.

We are the civilized world, you and I. A few dozen people, with our learning. As long as we continue to stroll through my garden arm in arm, civilization will continue.

Pentecost] was not the reversal of Babel but its redemption.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

The work we have to do is with ourselves ,If we're ever going to be at peace with each other.

Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.

But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.

Se non vuoi fare il guastafeste devi unirti alla compagnia. Ma Peter non la pensava così. Non aveva niente in contrario a stare con gli altri quando era il caso. Ma la gente esagera. Anzi, secondo lui, se si fosse sprecato un po' meno tempo a stare insieme e a convincere gli altri a fare lo stesso, e se ne fosse dedicato un po'di più a stare da soli e pensare a chi siamo e chi potremmo essere, allora il mondo sarebbe stato un posto migliore, magari anche senza le guerre.

self-interest and kindness were best not separated

the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free.

would likely bring them into the

We don't think about the fact that some of us are Christians and some of us are Muslims unless you remind us of it.

The landscape wouldn't have been complete without her.

As she came alongside the cornfield she giggled, and he heard the music that had emerged from the ring of her laughter

Man, war isn't our thing!

To be racially mixed is to represent unity, to synthesize, to integrate.

Breathing is like riding a bicycle.

Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don't mind being a bit like you. I hope you don't mind being a bit like me.

My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.

What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.