Quotes About Harmony

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

I've played in bands with A-team players around. But unless they can play together, it doesn't do any good. And you can take guys who may not stand on their own up against a bunch of individuals they might be compared to, but you put 'em together, man, and they are unique unto themselves in a way that no one else can touch.

When jurors are forced to spend day and night with each other, apart from their families and friends, they become a tribe unto themselves. Because they only have each other for company, and because most people prefer harmony to discord, there's a natural desire to cooperate, to compromise in order to reach agreement.

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves is to protect others.

Unused rooms are such bad feng shui, really bad energy.

Living with your in-laws is unusual, but it doesn't bother me.

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

Andy Rourke and I had been playing together from 14 or 15, and we had a very great musical chemistry. Andy's just a very respected and unusual musician.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

Within football we've got this unwritten rule that we're all in this together, we're all one.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in my family owing to that: each practiced their own religion. My existence is the harmony that these two communities can achieve if they try.

Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

I loved my parents. There were never any rows. It was a sort of artistic, bohemian upbringing.

Like I always said, Hrithik and I are parents first and have to be in-sync regarding our priorities as parents in order to make sure our boys get the best upbringing. They are and always will be our main priority.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.