Quotes About Harmony

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

To be good is to be in harmony with ones self. Discord is to be forces to be in harmony with others.

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.

The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, and ideality that is void.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

Oh my dear fellow...should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself, He replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. One's own life-that is the important thing. As for the lives of ones's neighbors, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.

La belleza, la auténtica belleza, termina allí donde empieza la expresión intelectual. El intelecto es en sí mismo un modo de exageración y destruye la armonía de cualquier rostro. En cuanto uno se sienta a pensar, se vuelve todo nariz, o todo frente, o algo quizá más espantoso.

And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms, and were waving their arms gently above the children's heads. 

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. 

Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek. The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. Harry! If only you knew what Dorian Gray is to me!

Was there some subtle affinity between the chemical atoms that shaped themselves into form and colour on the canvas and the soul that was within him? Could it be that what that soul thought, they realized? -- that what it dreamed, they made true?

Soul and body, body and soul-- how mysterious they were!

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Intellect is in itself an 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.

Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an 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.

And yet it was not the mystery, but the comedy of suffering that struck him; its absolute uselessness, its grotesque want of meaning. How incoherent everything seemed! How lacking in all harmony! He was amazed at the discord between the shallow optimism of the day, and the real facts of existence. He was still very young.

You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no more than the sound of music. It has not marred you.