Quotes About Harmony

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The Real American has not yet arived. He is only in the crucible, Itell you - he will be the fusion of all races, the common superman.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

If you can walk, you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

When words leave off, music begins.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

The flowering of geometry.

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

Architecture is frozen music.

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me.

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.

Birds of a feather will flock together.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.