Quotes About Harmony

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

A? fi lini?tit dac? a? fi nebun, lumea ar avea mai mult sens.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things." ~ Martin Scorsese

It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive. Curate that energy, feed it, don't domesticate it, make culture from it. It should be walking alongside you, not slung over your shoulder. You build your structures from its growls.

Unity transcends time, style, and numbers. When people hold hands across their own theologies, that unity can bring down the modern-day walls of Jericho.

True friends come in all shapes and sizes.

Appraise it [war] in terms of the five fundamental factors," says Sun Tzu. "The first of these factors is moral influence… by moral influence I mean that which causes the people to be in harmony with their leaders, so that they will accompany them in life and unto death without fear of mortal peril." In the words of Sun Pin, "engaging in a battle without righteousness, no one under Heaven would be able to be solid and strong.

Only one thing yet remains, that we should unite our prayer to His—or rather, should implore Him to make it one with His. For this union will render it so powerful that no other prayers can compare with it.