Quotes About Harmony

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here; So long as May of April takes, In smiles and tears, farewell, And windflowers dapple all the brakes, And primroses the dell.

Surely music is not only the food of love, but of poetry as well.

Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.

In Shakespeare, as we might have expected, the masculine note and the feminine note are heard in perfect harmony.

Would not the proper conclusion, therefore—a conclusion not overstrained and if not stated with excessive dogmatism—seem to be, that literature, though demanding precedence in the affections, and exacting the chief attention of one who professes really to love it, is not a jealous mistress, but, on the contrary, is only too well pleased to see even its most attached votaries combine with their one supreme passion a number of minor interests and even minor affections.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.

I love the sound of the horn, at night, in the depth of the woods.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." - Alfred Eisenstaedt

Remember Matthew 5:25 ("Make friends quickly with your opponent") and Matthew 5:44 ("Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you").

The goal of conflict resolution is to cultivate unity and peace, not to win or prove you are right.

Be kind and tenderhearted to one another (Eph. 4:32).

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.

Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.

I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

I agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.