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Quotes About Harmony

Things seem to work out better all around when I'm working out.
~ Terri Guillemets
Let exercise alternate with rest.
~ Pythagoras
Every large family has its angel and its demon.
~ Joseph Roux
Keep temperate diet, use moderate exercise, observe seasonable and set hours for rest: let the end of thy first sleep raise thee from thy repose: Then hath thy body the best temper; then hath thy soul the least encumbrance; then no noise shall disturb thine ear, no object shall divert thine eye.
~ Francis Quarles, 1640
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
~ Chuck Clark, unverified
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers, where I can walk undisturbed...
~ Walt Whitman
I long for flowers that bend with the wind and rain...
~ Tso Ssu
He who forgives ends the quarrel.
~ African Proverb
The strawberry... It is born of the copious dews, the fragrant nights, the tender skies, the plentiful rains of the early season. The singing of birds is in it, and the health and frolic of lusty Nature. It is the product of liquid May touched by the June sun. It has the tartness, the briskness, the unruliness of spring, and the aroma and intensity of summer.
~ John Burroughs
And it is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. When a man's mother holds his child in her gladdened arms he is aware (with some instinctive sense of propriety) of the roundness of life's cycle; of the mystic harmony of life's ways.
~ Christopher Morley
Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.
~ Author Unknown
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
~ Hazelmarie "Mattie" Elliott
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
~ Thomas Merton, 1955
Hate is a scarecrow That frightens all singing birds From the fields of life.
~ Clare Harner, 1930s
A loving heart heals hate.
~ Terri Guillemets
End discrimination. Hate everybody.
~ Elle Eden
Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.
~ Terri Guillemets, 2002
Come on inner peace — I don't have all day.
~ Internet meme
It is said that the body will heal itself of many things, if we will allow it to do so and not overburden it with remedies — the same is true of the soul and the heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
Spiritual and metaphysical health is inextricably linked to physical health.
~ Morris Hyman, M.D. (b.1908)
Health is a relationship between you and your body.
~ Terri Guillemets
If you take the 'I' out of illness and add 'we' you end up with wellness.
~ Charles Roppel, c. 1984
An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa.
~ Terri Guillemets
...the ear of the heart hears bluebirds...
~ Emily Dickinson, 1883