Quotes About Harmony

What I dream of is an art of balance.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium. (One among a thousand others, continually possible and always at the ready.) An average of "me's," a movement in the crowd. In the name of many, I sign this book.

Täpselt samuti on lugu kolmainsuse, selle jumaliku kolmnurgaga: kui lisada veel üks isik, siis pole see enam kolmainsus, vaid ruut, ja usu aluspõhimõte on rikutud!

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

If music thus carries us to heaven, it is because music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Piensa como un hombre de acción, actúa como un hombre de pensamiento" (Henri-Louis Berson)

Love is the key-note of the universe--the theme, the melody.

The Summer-time will come again To kiss the brow of dying Spring, And, with the south wind's low refrain, A choral requiem will she sing.

I had a vision of mankind to be: I saw no grated windows, heard no roar From iron mouths of war on land or sea; Ambition broke the sway of peace no more. Out of the chaos of ill-will had come Cosmos, the Age of Good, Millennium!

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The children of God have more in common than they have differences. And even the differences can be seen as an opportunity. God will help us see a difference in someone else not as a source of irritation but as a contribution.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

Glorious white birds in the blue October heights over the solemn unrest of ocean—their passing was more than music, and from their wings descended the old loveliness of earth which both affirms and heals. IV

Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

animals] are not brethren, they are not underlings [but beings] gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear [;] other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendid and travail of the earth