Quotes About Harmony

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

God writes His Gospel not in the Bible alone, but in trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

A man's heart away from nature becomes hard; lack of respect for growing, living things soon leads to a lack of respect for humans too.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.

Never rail at the storms, the furious winds, the biting frosts and snows...Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the great mystery.

The Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that a lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to a lack of respect for humans, too.

There was no such thing as emptiness in the world. Even in the sky there were no vacant places. Everywhere there was life, visible and invisible, and every object possessed something that would be good for us to have also—even to the very stones.

He was his usual philosophic self and tried very hard to explain to me that although life was stained with agony, this was necessary. That scars only concealed, and finally helped to reveal, an essential peace. He said that what we, who pass so swiftly, experience as songs of love or cries of pain are only overtones to a single note in a very much larger harmony.

We are in tune, and given the chance, we do things tunefully. We dance.

Florestas inteiras respiram em uníssono.

Our bodies, minds, and spirits stand in ancient communion with the soil.

Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. —Francis of Assisi

Men and women have been hardwired with distinctive gender traits that, when working together, serve the human race and display the glory of God.

E tranquilidade era aquilo, aquela quietude sob a qual a vida palpitava

A movement that begs for vengeance disguised as justice will not be as constructive or strong as beautiful as the movement that begs for peace!

But order is not itself a virtue: it is only a means to an end. The end is general comfort and general convenience, and she never sacrifices the end to the means.

Which is worthier, the music or the libretto? It is hard to say. But this is certain, that perfect music often redeems a prosaic libretto.

I do not believe that the laws of nature have ever been violated, for this would be to believe that God who dwells in nature and animates it has violated the laws of his own being.

To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.

It makes all the difference whether you hear an insect in the bedroom or in the garden. In the garden the voice of the insect soothes; in the bedroom it irritates. In the garden it is the hum of spring; in the bedroom it seems to belong to the same school of music as the buzz of the dentist's drill or the saw-mill.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.