Quotes About Harmony

Happy, thrice happy and more, are they whom an unbroken bond unites and whose love shall know no sundering quarrels so long as they shall live.

There is measure in all things.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

The half of my own soul.

We are all driven into the same fold.

He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man?s door, Embittering all his state.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

The most important ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with other people.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done.

Opposites are joined at the hip. Night and day, poisons and pleasures, innovation and destruction are usually different facets of the very same thing. [...] Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem - not tearing each other to bits or threatening to annihilate each other.

Consistency: How concerned is this person with consistency? Does this person care about whether stated beliefs, attitudes, and actions are consistent with one another? If so, how can one help this person deal with any inconsistencies? Stance on conflict: How much is this person bothered by the give-and-take of argument? Does this person like to match wits, or is it preferable to avoid sharp exchanges? If one has gone too far, how does one restore calm or equilibrium?

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

ho'oponopono (Hawaiian): Solving a problem by talking it out. After an invocation of the gods, the aggrieved parties sit down and discuss the issue until it is set right (pono means righteousness).

You will find what you look for in people and in the world. If you are loving, you will find love. If you seek beauty, you will see beauty. If you pursue goodness, you will receive goodness. What you are inside will attract the same from outside. When you love, love comes to you. When you hate, hate finds you.

It is no coincidence that music is called the universal language and used as a form of worship.

Work and rest are one entity.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

Inequality...is not only morally wrong, but practically also a source of problems. Wherever it occurs, poverty is a significant contributor to social disharmony, ill health, suffering, and armed conflict. If we continue along our present path, the situation could become irreparable. This constantly increasing gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' creates suffering for everyone

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.