Quotes About Harmony

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

You know, we're all going in the same direction, or at least trying to. So we need to live together, get along together, and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King's dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

There is never one defined right or wrong brother. We each have our individual truths. But together we're the better truth.

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

I just try to be respectful of everybody.

I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.

I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.

I try to be positive and calm all the time.

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.