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Quotes About Harmony

I threw it away feeling sorry to have vainly destroyed a flower that looked beautiful in its proper place. How many different plant lives man destroys to support his own existence.
~ Leo Tolstoy
How many different plant-lives man destroys to support his own existence - I thought!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Nothing does harm if one`s mind is at peace.
~ Leo Tolstoy
you have the sweetest of all music in your soul just now.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is only one thing in this world which is worth dedicating all your life. This is creating more love among people and destroying barriers which exist between them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the evil in man, one would think, should disappear on contact with Nature, the most spontaneous expression of beauty and goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
that in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and wife.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The longer Levin mowed, the more often he felt those moments of oblivion during which it was no longer his arms that swung the scythe, but the scythe itself that lent motion to his whole body, full of life and conscious of itself, and, as if by magic, without a thought of it, the work got rightly and neatly done on its own. These were the most blissful moments.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?
~ Leo Tolstoy
For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Si hay tantas cabezas como maneras de pensar, hay tantos corazones como maneras de amar.
~ Leo Tolstoy
in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Wszystkie szcz??liwe rodziny s? do siebie podobne, ka?da nieszcz??liwa rodzina jest nieszcz??liwa na swój sposób.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Para que se tome alguma decisão na vida conjugal, é necessário ou uma discordância completa entre os cônjuges, ou uma harmonia amorosa. Quando as relações entre os cônjuges são indeterminadas, e não há nem uma coisa nem outra, é impossível decidir qualquer questão.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin
~ Leo Tolstoy
As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and yet at the same time only a part of a whole too immense for man to comprehend, so each individual has within himself his own aims and yet has them to serve a general purpose incomprehensible to man.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I humbly beg you to leave me in peace. That's the only favor I ask of my gracious brothers.—Nikolai Levin.
~ Leo Tolstoy
he was drawn as naturally to her loving glance as a plant to the sun.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
nothing other than the harmony of the individual limbs and parts, so that nothing can be added or taken away without damaging it.
~ Leon Battista Alberti