Quotes About Harmony

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

See how these Christians love one another.

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

Bridges symbolize peace and human contact.

The different colors represent the husband and the wife. What will happen when they're kneaded together? The colors could mix; they could divide neatly down the middle; one color could completely overwhelm the other—whatever happens, the two smaller balls are going to smash together and recreate themselves as a one, slightly bigger ball. That's my take on marriage.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

303]No doubt my reader wonders how cats and rats, two races so hostile to each other, and the one of which is the prey of the other, can manage to live together. The fact is that mine got on wonderfully harmoniously together. The cats were good as gold to the rats, which had lost all fear of them.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy.

I saw that every flower He has created has a beauty of its own, that the splendor of the rose and the lily's whiteness do not deprive the violet of its scent nor make less ravishing the daisy's charm. I saw that if every little flower wished to be a rose, Nature would lose her spring adornments, and the fields would be no longer enameled with their varied flowers.

The hunter does not plunder his world – he takes from it only what he truly needs. In this way the hunter ensures that his coffer, whether it holds friends, food, happiness or power, is never empty.

Embrace the human race"

In all things essential, unity; in all things nonessential, liberty; and in all things, love.

A committed church member is committed to the maintenance of peace in the congregation. "Let us pursue what makes for peace and mutual upbuilding" (Rom. 14:19). "And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace" (James 3:18).

The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys.

On ne fait pas de musique contre quelqu'un" ("One does not make music against someone else").

What allowed a person sitting in front of this strange giant to call forth beautiful sounds just by moving his fingers up and down?

a "mélomane," the French word for music lover;

I sat down on the bench and started playing, instantly lost in the perfection of the moment; I was elsewhere.

Music isn't music unless we share it with others," she told me, but even then that sentiment seemed unsatisfactory to me.

Motionless, he held the final chord for a long moment and we felt—I could almost say watched—the harmony rise into the light-filled cold of the atelier.

emerged with a shared sense of the exultation that great music can bring.