Quotes About Harmony

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

In a group when the conversation takes a trend that is upsetting, try injecting peaceful ideas into the talk.

The fundamental task of Christians is to align their living with the divine love that is always already operative in the world.

To be sick is to be diseased, ill at ease, unable to be with others in a harmonious way. It is, eventually, to find oneself fragmented and alone. To be healthy, on the other hand, is to be able to move freely, sympathetically, and shamelessly among others.

It is impossible to think of an ideal human life except as an alternation of individual and social life, as equally a belonging and an escape.

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.

Ali zar u buci nema i dobrih zvukova?

Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars. Therefore, let both kingdoms live in peace.

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.

The Bridge Between now and now, between I am and you are, the word bridge. Entering it you enter yourself: the world connects and closes like a ring. From one bank to another, there is always a body stretched: a rainbow. I'll sleep beneath its arches.

Hay 3 clases de amistad: por interés o utilidad, por placer y la amistad perfecta, la de los hombres de bien y semejantes en virtud, porque éstos se desean igualmente el bien.

the trees murmur, they tell us something…

take me to the other side of this night, whee I am you, we are us, the kingdom where pronouns are intertwined

Trees heavy with birds hold the afternoon up with their hands. — Octavio Paz, from "THE TOMB Of AMIR KHUSRU," A Tale of Two Gardens (New Directions, 1997)

But be careful not to let yourself slip into the situation where your goals concern only your business or making money. Think of your marriage, your children, and your friends as important areas in which to improve your life.

To have a happy family...is to enjoy an earlier heaven.

Balance lives in the present.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

I know for sure that you cannot give to everyone else and not give back to yourself. You will end up empty, or at best, less than what you can be for yourself and your family and your work. Replenish the well of yourself, for yourself.

What I know for sure: There is no need to struggle with your body when you can make a loving and grateful peace with it.