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Quotes About Harmony

You cannot expect wolves to become sheep. No, but neither do the wolves have to be cruel to the sheep.
~ Christopher Paolini
If only everyone could see what we have seen, perhaps there would be less fighting in the world. You cannot expect wolves to become sheep. No, but neither do the wolves have to be cruel to the sheep.
~ Christopher Paolini
Teamwork is a dance—engrossing to perform and exciting to watch.
~ Christopher Peterson
Any spot where the earth kisses the clouds is a special place, a place where primal truths reveal themselves to those who've acquired the wisdom of solitude.
~ Christopher Rice
I stared at the faces of the dead students. "You know, Zacharie, just looking at them, I can't tell you which ones were Tutsis, which Hutus." "Exactly!" said Deo in a loud whisper. Evidently, one was supposed to whisper here. "And neither could the killers!" "The killers couldn't see the difference, too," whispered Zacharie. "So they ask. Because they can't tell. We are the same people.
~ Tracy Kidder
Dünyada iki tip insan vard?r evlat. Senin gibiler ve bizim gibiler.
~ Trevanian
basso ostinado
~ Trevanian
orhiko choria orhin laket / orhy ku?lar? ancak orhy'de mutlu olur
~ Trevanian
It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers
~ Trina Paulus
Look up and we're all looking at the same sky.
~ Triumph Books
People and land, they're the same, his father used to say. Neglect one and the other suffers eventually.
~ Trudi Canavan
La gente y la tierra son lo mismo - solia decir su padre- si desatiendes una de las dos, la otra acaba pagando las consecuencias
~ Trudi Canavan
We co-existed in peaceful detachment
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
Heaven desires the earth, and the earth is lost without heaven. Make your life a marriage of the two, as lovers that never part, and you will find peace.
~ Tzvi Freeman
A life of purpose is a delicate balancing act of body and soul, heaven and earth. It requires two feet firmly upon the ground and a clear head high up in the air.
~ Tzvi Freeman
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
~ Umberto Eco
The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
~ Umberto Eco
I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys...
~ Umberto Eco
As long as you remain in your private vacuum, you can pretend you are in harmony with the One. But the moment you pick up the clay, electronic or otherwise, you become a demiurge, and he who embarks on the creation of worlds is already tainted with corruption and evil.
~ Umberto Eco
three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.
~ Umberto Eco
The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.
~ Umberto Eco
I lost myself in the contemplation of nature, trying to forget my thoughts and to look only at beings as they appear, and to forget myself, joyfully, in the sight of them.
~ Umberto Eco
Porque de tres cosas depende la belleza: en primer lugar, de la integridad o perfección, y por eso consideramos feo lo incompleto; luego, de la justa proporción, o sea de la consonancia; por último, de la claridad y la luz.
~ Umberto Eco
Oh, what a harmony of abandonment and impulse, of unnatural and yet graceful postures, in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter, marked quantity infused with new substantial form, as if the holy band were struck by an impetuous wind, breath of life, frenzy of delight, rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed, from the sound that it was, into image.
~ Umberto Eco