Quotes About Harmony

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.

In todays world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.

...A pure wind envelopes my body. The whole world seen in a single cup.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others

Puesto que el que contempla con sus ojos la belleza, no es ya tributario de la muerte, como dice Platen, sino de la Naturaleza, cuya belleza ha comprendido. Y si sus ojos sirven realmente para ver, llegará a ser, inexcusablemente, naturalista.

Relax when you need to, but be tense when you need to. The point is to never mix up the two.

We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

A mystic is anyone who has a gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradiction, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

Beauty is that in the presence of which we feel more alive.

Healing," said the poet, "is not a science but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

We chose too small a word in the decade of my birth—tolerance—to make the world we want to live in now. We opened to the racial difference that had been there all along, separate but equal, and to a new infusion of religions, ethnicities, and values. But tolerance doesn't welcome. It allows, endures, indulges. In the medical lexicon, it is about the limits of thriving in an unfavorable environment.

Love was not all you needed. You needed to match, to fit, to want the same things

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

The natural state of the human psyche consists in a jostling together of its components and in their contradictory behavior... The reconciliation of these opposites is a major problem. Thus, the adversary is none other than 'the other in me.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.