Quotes About Harmony

The natural order of things is artificial.

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]

Other people savor the symmetry of opposites.

Take care of the components, ad the sum of their parts unfolds as if by magic.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

Manhattanhenge was a reminder that there was power, order, and beauty in the natural world as well.

Maybe, I think, happiness is simply order.

I have exquisite taste, but I just don't know how to put tasteful things together in any semblance of visual harmony. No. I am not good at creating visual harmony. It's OK. I'm good at lots of other things.

lightness come upon her, a sense that there was a centre to everything after all.

the sheep and the sea and the sweet meadow air.

That's one thing I've learned. If you're with the right people then you're generally in the right place.

Do you know what a balance wheel is?" She shook her head slightly. "There's one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It's what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn't work. You're my balance wheel, Poppy." -Harry Rutledge

You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.

Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly.

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.

For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.