Quotes About Harmony

All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics...

And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

All the while they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale

She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect which gave it the sweetness, because it was that which gave it the humanity.

Stia cum sa prinda, in ultimul moment, acea clipa a inserarii, cand lumina si intunericul sunt atat de bine echilibrate, incat ziua ce scade si noaptea ce pluteste Inca nehotarata in aer se neutralizeaza una pe cealalta, ingaduind gandurilor sa zboare neingradite.

Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied that his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace...

He could see that he had too many flowers in the room, and must add more to make it come back right again. Too many flowers was too many, but way too many was just right.

With Reba, his only living woman, held with her in this one bubbleskin of time, he felt for the first time that it was all right: It was his life he was releasing, himself past all mortality that he was sending into her starry darkness, away from this pain planet, ringing harmonic distances away to peace and the promise of rest.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

Music awakens time, awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

The dilemma, my dear sir, the tragedy, begins where nature has been cruel enough to split the personality, to shatter its harmony by imprisoning a noble and ardent spirit within a body not fit for the stresses of life. Have you heard of Leopardi, Engineer, or you, Lieutenant? An unhappy poet of my own land, a crippled, ailing man, born with a great soul, which his sufferings were constantly humiliating and dragging down into the depths of irony—its lamentations rend the heart to hear.

It was simply that the mechanical laws found themselves repeated and corroborated in nature.

niebo nale?y pozostawi? wróblom.

Est vrai ce qui convient à l'homme. En lui, toute la nature est concentrée, lui seul a été créé dans toute la nature, et toute la nature n'est faite que pour lui.