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Quotes About Harmony

In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
~ Catherine Killigrew
As I sit absentmindedly bystanders stop and ask. Can they not see that I am in serenity?
~ Catherine Marie Wright
abundance and happiness,
~ Catherine Ponder
You are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health and plenty in your world.
~ Catherine Ponder
The divine law of balance and equilibrium is doing its perfect work.
~ Catherine Ponder
When our life is out of balance we have stress! Balance in your life does bring less stress to your life!
~ Catherine Pulsifer
Living simply has resulted in us becoming more aware of the environment and the impact we have on it.
~ Catherine Pulsifer
And you never have to change the water, because the horse does it for you, by drinking it down and triggering the valve to refill. So there's always fresh oxygen for the fish. And you never have to feed the fish, because they eat the algae. And so long as no hawks or eagles come by to go fishing, you're golden." "And they don't scare the horse?" "Never met a horse who cared.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I'd been focusing strongly on green since my days in pasture seeing through the eyes of a horse.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It isn't nice to hurt other people, and if you absolutely must hurt someone, it's important that you never do it on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day, or maybe even a day or two before or after that.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
These places. Nature. It makes me feel different.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I either don't talk enough or I talk too much. There must be a right amount to talk. But I can never seem to find it." Another
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Life is beautiful and life is stupid. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy, the history of a planet, the history of a person is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of glittering, occasionally peaceful light to help you follow along. Cue the music. Cue the dancers. Cue tomorrow.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
We make our worlds of stranger stuff: We choose people who do not annoy us, places of green or glass and steel that feel as alive and necessary as our brothers and sisters, houses in which everything has a place, rules such as Do Not Take Things That Aren't Yours Unless No One Is Looking and Good Things Happen to Good People and A Year Is 365 Days are agreed upon, even when they aren't true, perhaps especially so.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The only question is this: Do you have enough empathy and yearning and desperation to connect to others outside yourself and scream into the void in four-part harmony?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
As far as quality housemates to be found on Planet Earth, it goes: dolphins, elephants, orangutans, octopi, then every single spider, then Joan of Arc, the Dalai Lama, Mr. Rogers, Freddie Mercury, my nan, all the scorpions, German measles, a dented recycling bin, and then maybe some of the rest of us.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Be a good neighbor and you will have good neighbors
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Sometimes I am a cicada, hissing and singing in the leaves of a tree by the sunlit water, thoughtless and wordless, a voice that is all consonants and tribal clicks. Sometimes I rub my legs together like a string bass, and the lake quivers
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangers as both or either.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Most people don't like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Of course, one may have a number of other halves," Nor said with a grin. "We have always felt sorry for those who are forced to be only one person, forever and ever until they die. My brother and I are Neither/Nor, my sister and I are Not/Nor, and on and on the combinations go, sharing dreams and labor and life. We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it—to see the Queerness that moves in every bit
~ Catherynne M. Valente