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Quotes About Harmony

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~ Clive James
the application of effort should always be exactly measured: nothing by force, everything by logical progression.
~ Clive James
But peace is not a principle: merely a desirable state of affairs.
~ Clive James
Some people are different from the rest of us, and so are the rest of us.
~ Clive James
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together
~ Clyde Kluckhohn
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
~ Coco Chanel
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
~ Coco Chanel
Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make sense any more.
~ Coleman Barks
I have no name for what circles so perfectly
~ Coleman Barks
I offer no proof other than my whole life and your whole life as they dissolve in each other as we read or speak, as we watch or dance, as we play or sing, as we walk from being indoors to being out.
~ Coleman Barks
I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest.
~ Colette
Los compañeros perfectos no tienen menos de cuatro patas.
~ Colette
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
~ Colette
Trudno zadowoli? jednocze?nie wszystkich i sam? siebie. Wol? zacz?? od siebie...
~ Colette
And love?" asked the Sangharaj. "The ultimate compromise," said Siri. "It's so important to have a partner that we cut and shape our tastes and likes and dislikes and go to great lengths to tolerate differences. We do this so we have someone beside us.
~ Unknown
I have no wish to know anything which may deform life and mar its beauty. Never mind whether our gods are true or not; they are beautiful, their rule is pleasant for us, and we live without care.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
~ Heraclitus
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
~ Heraclitus
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
~ Heraclitus
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
~ Heraclitus
The road up and the road down is one and the same. (???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ????) —Fragment 60
~ Heraclitus
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
~ Heraclitus
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
~ Heraclitus
The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.
~ Heraclitus