Quotes About Harmony

Why must one religion be hounded by another? What gives them the right to punish and persecute someone of a different faith? Why?

L'Europa si trova in mezzo. È il vero nemico di ogni aspirante tiranno, perché è l'unica esperienza multinazionale riuscita di cooperazione politica, economica e culturale.

There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people.

I sing to the geese. And I feel her. It's different from remembering her or yearning for her. I feel her near me. I don't know if she is the geese or the river or the sky or the moon. I don't know if she is outside of me or inside of me, but she is here. I feel her love for me. I feel my love reach her. A brief, easy exchange.

I was feeling what I should be feeling, as if for once all the sharp awkward fragments of my life suddenly fell into their proper slots.

A physicist might argue that music is the harmonic resonance of our soul & the string theory of our hearts.

Music helps us to both articulate & express our emotions in a manner that's publicly acceptable.

Music is emotion set to rhythm and tone.

Music is the sonic representation of our soul.

Singing is exercise for the soul.

Beyond anything we know to name, there moves a force arising from the pure juxtaposition of things, a force that draws us into being, that allows us to dwell fully in our lives. All pure juxtaposition is a gathering.

Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.

Anyone who wishes to learn to enjoy life must find friends of the same type of temperament, and take as much trouble to gain and keep their friendship as wives take to keep their husbands.

The critical mind is too thin and cold, thinking itself will help little and reason will be of small avail; only the spirit of reasonableness, a sort of warm, glowing, emotional and intuitive thinking, joined with compassion, will insure us against a reversion to our ancestral type. Only the development of our life to bring it into harmony with our instincts can save us. I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Make No Distinctions

when after a perfect dinner I lounge in an armchair, when there is no one I hate to look at in the company and conversation rambles off at a light pace to an unknown destination, and I am spiritually and physically at peace with the world;

that it is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, "Life is beautiful

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.