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Quotes About Harmony

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
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~ Vladimir Nabokov
It is not the parts that matter, it is their combinations.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
parts, solid and ample
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Esiste, nella scala dimensionale del mondo, un punto di incontro tra conoscenza ed immaginazione. Un punto al quale si perviene rimpicciolendo le cose grandi ed ingrandendo quelle piccole.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the beastly and beautiful merged at one point, and it is that borderline I would like to fix
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse
~ Volkmar Essers
Cele trei componente stabile ale muncii lor: performanta, invatarea si bucuria. [...] Cele trei componente ale muncii sunt interdependente. Daca, in stradania de a avea performanta, componenta de invatare este ignorata, performanta va scadea inevitabil sau se va opri la un anumit nivel. La fel, daca bucuria lipseste din ecuatia muncii, atat invatarea, cat si eprformanta vor avea de suferit.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
You are white- Yet a part of me as I am a part of you. That's American.... AsI learn from you, I guess you learn from me- Although you're older-and white- And somewhat more free.
~ Langston Hughes
I would like to see an America where people of any race, color or creed may live on a plane of cultural, material well-being, cooperating unhindered by sectarian, racial, or factional prejudices that do nobody any good.
~ Langston Hughes
Once people have that sense that their voice is being recognized, they then are more willing to move to consensus. Once people feel that their ideas are respected, I think that you will find a move toward cooperation. People are much more conciliatory once they feel they've been respected. That's the threshold we need to get to: the idea of respecting different viewpoints. (from the book The NPR Interviews 1995 edited by Robert Siegel)
~ Lani Guinier
Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands and the mouth.
~ Lanza Del Vasto
He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
~ Lao Tzu
The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.
~ Lao Tzu
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.Reversion is the action of Tao.Weakness is the function of Tao.All things in the world come from being.And being comes from non-being.
~ Lao Tzu
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
~ Lao Tzu
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~ Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
~ Lao Tzu
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.
~ Lao Tzu
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Non-being penetrates that in which there is no space.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
~ Lao Tzu
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
~ Lao Tzu
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
~ Lao Tzu