Quotes About Harmony

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

You are right," he had said. "Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, 'Know thy neighbor as thyself." That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.

Body and soul are partners, and neither must desert the other.

None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.

I believe in the equality of man and woman," Rulan insisted. "Ah," Madame Wu said, "two equals are nevertheless not the same two things. They are equal in importance, equally necessary to life, but not the same

And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.

Mind and body were well or ill together.

Can one spit on a smiling face?" he inquired; or he said, "Vengeance cannot last a night's sleep.

It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.

It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates.

THE GARDEN WAS QUIET. Beyond its walls no echo of footsteps could be heard above the soft incessant splash of the waterfall. The silence was planned, as everything in the garden was planned, though all seemed nature itself.

All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.

There is no dignity to life except with order

Can there be true equality in the classroom and the boardroom if there isn't in the bedroom?

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

The more you just try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world: our own warfare as well as greater warfare. —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE

Strive at first to meditate Upon the sameness of yourself and others. In joy and sorrow all are equal. Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself. We

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. —MAHATMA GANDHI

The point is that we can dissolve the sense of dualism between us and them, between this and that, between here and there, by moving toward what we find difficult and wish to push away.