Quotes About Harmony

The possibility of men living together in peace and to their mutual advantage, without having to agree on common concrete aims, and bound only by abstract rules of conduct, was perhaps the greatest discovery mankind ever made.

She personified a principled regard for the community, which to me reflects Adam Smith's vision: And hence it is, that to feel much for others, and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.3

Meleager of Gadara called, in the first century BC, "one country which is the whole world.

The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind.

The smallest insect is as important as the largest bear.

Stay kind. It makes you beautiful.

A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one.

This lucky little lady bug has landed here to stay, to make my garden pretty and keep the weeds away.

Plenty of ladybirds, plenty of hops.

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.

Life: A compromise between Fate and Freewill.

Life: An affirmative between two negatives.

[T]hat blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened:—that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Live for the roots Love the green Dance with the blossoms

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.

Plant love everywhere, so that it grows through the cracks in hatred.

God delights in odd numbers.

Meditation is not only sitting still like a Buddha-figure, nor is it thinking about something, for the Upanishads say that the stars, the trees, the rivers, and the mountains are meditating — unconsciously. Conscious meditation is a knack, and as an exercise it is a way of learning that Enlightenment comes to pass in us as much when we are doing nothing to produce it as when we are in the midst of activity.

The winter wind is wailing, sad and low, Across the lake and through the rustling sedge; The splendour of the golden after-glow, Gleams through the blackness of the great yew hedge; And this I read on earth and in the sky— "We ought to be together, you and I."

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Happiness is a place between too little and too much.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Music!—who loves it not? who has not felt his soul soothed and softened by its sweet influence?

F.B., "Notes of Music," 1848