Quotes About Harmony

Tessie allowed Milton to press his clarinet to her skin and fill her body with music. At first it only tickled her. But after a while the notes spread deeper into her body. She felt the vibrations penetrate her muscles, pulsing in waves, until they rattled her bones and made her inner organs hum.

We thought green was cheerful, but not too cheerful. Green was also serious.

Still point of the turning world.

His point, again and again, was that truth wasn't the property of any one faith and that, if you looked closely, you found a ground where they all converged.

Acts like these—simple, humane, conscientious, forgiving—held life together.

and the wind-chime laugh that

When two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I think that men and women, shoulder to shoulder, will work together to make this a better world. Just as I don't think that men are the superior sex, neither do I think women are.

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

Sometimes compromise tastes like caramel macchiato.

If we don't want to self-destruct as a nation, black lives and blue lives mattering can't be a binary choice.

Dog People should be with Dog People and vice versa. If you're into chasing cars, it's hard to relate to someone who compulsively bats yarn.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.

You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul—be your own keeper.

Sometimes I think life would be so much easier if we didn't have to think about being boys or girls or men or women or old or young, fat or thin… if we could all just be certain we were the same. We might be bored, but the danger of life and of living would be gone.

sing the prettiest songs

and my father together had gently

Don't upset your mother, my father would say.

There was no style in nature.

I'm a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I'm a tired person.

Jeri Smith-Ready

Jerome then speaks of the unity of the sacred books. Whatever, he asserts, we read in the Old Testament we find also in the Gospel; and what we read in the Gospel is deduced from the Old Testament. There is no discord between them, no disagreement.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...

And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops down to kiss it with a sister's kiss, and throws her silver arms around it clingingly; and we watch it as it flows, ever singing, ever whispering