Quotes About Harmony

Friends, like pianos, need frequent tuning. You are in the right key when you sing the praises of others. —HEATHER MACGREGOR

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

I accept the universe.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

The union of two natures for a time is so great

All truth is comprised in music and mathematics.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

The river flowed both ways.

How can this beautiful world contain such ugliness as I have seen?

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Don't waste your energies kicking against an open door,

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

True goodness is like water. Water helps the ten thousand things without itself striving. Water flows down into the low places men despise, for water is in the Way

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It is rare in today's turbulent world to find a city that so harmoniously mixes tradition and modernity, without enslaving itself to either one.

Darwin proved that not only are humans and all other animals related but also that we together feel pain, share emotions, and possess memory, reason, and imagination. Rather than seeing humans and animals as categorically different, Darwin showed that all animals, including humans, share a continuum of mental and emotional capacities.

Being agreeable' is the highest duty of any human being mingling with other people….Practicing good manners should be as natural as displaying the teeth").

Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires.

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret. —SYMMACHUS, 384 C.E.

strive to be comfortable in chaos and complexity. Be as a shaman who walks in many worlds.

Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.