Quotes About Harmony

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

The life of Balance is difficult. It lies on the verge of continual temptation, its perpetual adjustments become fatiguing, its measured virtue is monotonous and uninspiring.

Every environment is a cause. Its effect upon me is exactly proportionate to my correspondence with it. If I correspond with part of it, part of myself is influenced. If I correspond with more, more of myself is influenced; if with all, all is influenced. If I correspond with the world, I become worldly; if with God, I become Divine.

If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.

Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.

I don't see the mind, body, and spirit as separate things—they are just different reflections of a unified whole.

The world is] a wonderful place to live and lots more wonderful if you live in such a way that you can live with yourself.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

The oneness in Jesus Christ crosses all boundaries and separations. Anyone with the faith of Jesus Christ can immediately enjoy the innate oneness with another who has the faith of Jesus, regardless of differing political or doctrinal views."

When a person's conscience alerts them to an offense that is causing a rift in a relationship, it is important to attempt to reconcile quickly with the offended person.

Then we shall riseAnd view ourselves with clearer eyesIn that calm region where no nightCan hide us from each other's sight.

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

But unlike Machiavelli, Confucius was concerned more with the cultivation of social harmony than with the machinations of power. His themes were the principles of compassionate rule, the performance of correct rituals, and the inculcation of filial piety.

Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.

yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

If the Emperor strayed from the path of virtue, All Under Heaven would fall into chaos. Even natural catastrophes might signify that disharmony had beset the universe. The existing dynasty would be seen to have lost the "Mandate of Heaven" by which it possessed the right to govern: rebellions would break out, and a new dynasty would restore the Great Harmony of the universe.19

As "the East," it has never been clearly parallel to "the West." There has been no common religion, not even one splintered into different branches as is Christianity in the West. Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity all thrive in different parts of Asia.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternising with the enemy.