Quotes About Harmony

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

It's only now that I see the bigger picture: Our ways to attain spirituality may be different - through diverse religious, customs and traditions - but they're modeled on similar principles and ideologies. That's what ties us all together.

We have to figure out why we see the world in different ways and then how are we going to adjust so that we can at least still understand each other.

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.

We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good.

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.

We cannot afford to lose any more people as a result of hatred.

We cannot afford to fight our neighbor, even if we disagree on many things.

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.