Quotes About Harmony

Le bonheur seul est salutaire pour le corps

Comme le public ne connaît du charme, de la grâce, des formes de la nature que ce qu'il en a puisé dans les poncifs d'un art lentement assimilé, et qu'un artiste original commence par rejeter ces poncifs, M. et Mme Cottard, image en cela du public, ne trouvaient ni dans la sonate de Vinteuil, ni dans les portraits du peintre, ce qui faisait pour eux l'harmonie de la musique et la beauté de la peinture.

At the very beginning of love, as at its end, we are not exclusively attached to a single beloved: it is the yearning to love, of which that person will be the loved outcome, and later the echo left in the memory, that wanders voluptuously in a place full of charms—sometimes deriving only from contingencies of nature, bodily pleasures, or habitation—interchangeable and interrelated enough for it to feel in harmony with any of them.

After a certain age, and even if our inner development varies, the more we become ourselves, the more family characteristics are accentuated. For, while maintaining the harmonious design of its tapestry, Nature breaks up the monotony of the composition by the variety in the faces that it inserts.

Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

Perfection is too hard a burden to impose on nature.

Imagine a world where all religious groups can simply freeze their beliefs and not have to interact with the culture.)

Cuando buscas la belleza en el universo, comienzas también a ver tu propia belleza.

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

There is no other reality than nature.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.

Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Wherever a man lives, he may live well.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.