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Quotes About Harmony

The Celtic mind was not burdened by dualism. It did not separate what belongs together. The Celtic imagination articulates the inner friendship that embraces Nature, divinity, underworld, and human world as one.
~ John O'Donohue
Each of us is a secret envoi of the earth. We
~ John O'Donohue
an authentic life is a life that is aware of and willing to engage its own oppositions, and honorably inhabits that threshold where the light and darkness, the masculine and feminine and all the beginnings and endings of one's life engage.
~ John O'Donohue
Kathleen Raine, a Scottish poet, says that unless you see a thing in the light of love, you do not see it at all. Love is the light in which we see light.
~ John O'Donohue
Landscape has a soul and a presence, and landscape- living in the mode of silence is always wrapped in seamless prayer.
~ John O'Donohue
Each life is clothed in raiment of spirit that secretly links it to everything else.
~ John O'Donohue
When you are in rhythm with your nature, nothing destructive can touch you. Providence is at one with you; it minds you and brings you to new horizons. To be spiritual is to be in rhythm.
~ John O'Donohue
Drink to whatever it is I'm headed, and don't let there be any Japs or Chinks or Jews or Poles or Niggers or Frenchies, but only people.
~ Unknown
Canada is a test case for a grand notion – the notion that dissimilar peoples can share land, resources, power and dreams while respecting and sustaining their differences." So
~ John Ralston Saul
Only thus can hope be bright that there might come a tomorrow when you, the descendants of the settlers of our lands, can say to the world, Look, we came and were welcomed, and then we wrought much despair; but we are also men of honour and integrity and we set to work in cooperation, we listened and we learned, we gave our support, and today we live in harmony with the first people of this land who now call us, brothers.
~ John Ralston Saul
Refuse to tolerate anything less than harmony. You can have prosperity no matter what your present circumstances may be. Man has dominion over all things when he knows the Law of Being, and obeys it. The Law gives you power to attain prosperity and position without infringing the rights and opportunities of anyone else in the world." — Emmet Fox in Alter Your Life
~ John Randolph Price
Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
~ John Rawls
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
~ John Ruskin
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rival ship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
~ John Ruskin
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
~ John Ruskin
As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary; a wild flower by the wayside, tended corn, wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle; because man doth not live by bread only.
~ John Ruskin
Every advance in our acuteness of perception will show us something thing new; but the old and first-discerned thing will still be there, not falsified, only modified and enriched by the new perceptions, becoming continually more beautiful in its harmony with them, and more approved as a part of the infinite truth.
~ John Ruskin
As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary: - the wild flower by the wayside, as well as the tended corn; and the wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle; because man doth not live by bread only, but also by the desert manna; by every wondrous word and unknowable work of God
~ John Ruskin
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
~ John Ruskin
Beautiful art can only be produced by people who have beautiful things about them.
~ John Ruskin
When a collection of brilliant minds, attitudes, and talents come together... expect a masterpiece
~ John Ruskin
THE DAY WAS PERFECT: low eighties, bluebird sky, the slightest touch of a breeze. If the Minnesota August lasted all year, nobody would live anywhere else.
~ John Sandford
Make tender and awkward sexual advances, not war. ~ t-shirt
~ John Sandford
Virgil was getting the impression that the group lacked cohesiveness.
~ John Sandford