Quotes About Harmony

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

It's a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, 'I come in peace.' I come in peace. That's why it's important.

My mantra is 'healthy body, healthy mind.'

I personally didn't go to any marches or anything like that. For me, all lives matter, you know what I mean?

Marines know we're all on the same team.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

You don't want to marry somebody who's just like you.

Is that how the song goes. It's the chorus!

Opposition is true friendship." Something

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

We ask the poet to reassure us by giving us a geometry of living, in which all things add up and cohere, to tell us how things buttress once another, circle round and intermelt.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos—a cult of two with fallible gods.

Today, instead of adapting to the natural world in which we live, we've created a human environment in which we've embedded the natural world.

A garden always includes many smaller gardens. Indeed, no garden exists as a single thing. By its nature, it is plural, just as each person is a symposium of cells, or an arch is a strength made from many weaknesses.

I believe in God,' Frank Lloyd Wright said, only I spell it Nature. Gardeners spend much of their time kneeling in postures of prayer.

Every Difference is a Likeness too.

The spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own: you are he. There is no other wisdom, and no other hope for us but that we grow wise. -attributed to Surak

What is the point of celebrating diversity if one tries to make all the elements of it the same?

And slept peacefully.

Let the sun be proud of its achievement." He added, "It is evident that white and black 'must fall or flourish together.' In the light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established—all distinctions, founded on complexion ought to be repealed . . . and every right, privilege, and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color.

I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.