Quotes About Harmony

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

I always remind myself of all the things I should note if I am to be a good person, one sound and balanced. One night . . . I reminded myself that 22 species of flowers were blooming in my backyard. . . . that fact helped a great deal.

The two basic attitudes of life that must characterize genuine, biblical spirituality are thankfulness at all times and in all circumstances and the maintenance of unity in that part of the body of Christ.

By wholesome I mean balanced. There is nothing more devastating to the practice of spiritual living than an imbalance.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.

Abstract love is the nosy neighbor of abstract hate; they see right into each other's windows and they always agree on everything.

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments. I wouldn't settle for less, yet I don't expect a whole lot more, either.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A stele was erected as a souvenir. It was written: the mountain is no longer alone; the trees support it. (Une stèle fut érigée en souvenir. Y était inscrit : la montagne n'est plus seule; les arbres la soutiennent.)"

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre sans commencer la guerre)

Peace is done two. And love too. (Paix se fait à deux. Et l' amour aussi)

Silence is an ornament which is visible from the inside. (Le silence est une parure Qui se voit de l'intérieur)

The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c'est l'équilibre Du passé et du futur)

The river overflows, not the sun. (Déborde le fleuve, Pas le soleil)

We are jealous our close neighbors, but not the sun and its care. (Nous jalousons nos proches voisins, - Mais pas le soleil et ses soins.) [Fables1, The Ant / La Fourmi]

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

The unities, sir… are a completeness—a kind of universal dove-tailedness with regard to place and time.