Quotes About Harmony

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between.

I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war

must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

We'd be at peace with every people on earth, if they'd let us. As long as we don't come to love war, or to use it in order to rule over others, then we are still a peaceful people.

They aren't having a mental conversation between people with different thought processes. All their thoughts are present, together, at once.

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.

We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe.

we must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

We become one tribe because we 'say' we're one tribe.

Maybe we only thought we were different from each other out of jealousy

Era algo nuevo en el mundo, dos reinas que se querían y se ayudaban en vez de combatir, y juntas fueron más fuertes que ninguna otra colmena.

The future of the human race depends on good people who want to live at peace with their neighbors, and who are willing to protect their neighbors from those who don't want peace.

Theresa had always loved about teaching: a group of people thinking the same thoughts, conceiving the same universe, becoming, for just a few moments, one.

Rather, it was a prayer for the queen, that in her current unenlightened bodhisatta state she would learn greater compassion for all sentient beings in the universe. It was a prayer for harmony and kindness, for the injured of the Formic race, that their suffering would be lifted, that their minds would be open and bright and receptive to the kindness of those not of their species.

But the sky only seems to be far away from you,' said Master Han, when she told him this. 'Actually it is all around you. You breathe it in and you breathe it out, even when you labor with your hands in the mud.

The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one's life without killing that life to accommodate them.

I don't want to destroy anybody. And I don't want war, either. I want the world to hold together. Is that so bad?

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.