Quotes About Harmony

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

Be thankful and repay Growth with good work and care. Work done in gratitude Kindly, and well, is prayer.

There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.

Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. Wendell Berry

We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only thing that you can do. You take two things that ought to be together and you put them together. Two things! Not all things.

I now suspect that if we work with machines the world will seem to us to be a machine, but if we work with living creatures the world will appear to us as a living creature.

This is the justice that we are learning from the ecologists: you cannot damage what you are dependent upon without damaging yourself.

It was a pretty place, its prettiness not so much made as allowed. It was a place of work, but a place too of order and rest, where work was done in a condition of acknowledged blessedness and of gratitude.

The preserver of abundance is excellence.

I came to see myself as growing out of the earth like the other native animals and plants. I saw my body and my daily motions as brief coherences and articulations of the energy of the place, which would fall back into it like leaves in the autumn.

A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.

It is possible, as I have learned again and again, to be in one's place, in such company, wild or domestic, and with such pleasure, that one cannot think of another place that one would prefer to be—or of another place at all. One does not miss or regret the past, or fear or long for the future. Being there is simply all, and is enough. Such times give one the chief standard and the chief reason for one's work.

The environment," as we call it, is intimately with us. We're in it. It's in us. But also we are it, and it is us.

make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came. Wendell Berry

But a man with a machine and inadequate culture—such as I was when I made my pond—is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.