Quotes About Harmony

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.

America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

She grew not on the land so much as out of it, like cottonwoods and bear grass. Each fall a part of her collapsed and withered alongside the wildflowers and grapevines she loved and used for healing. Each spring some new part of her erupted just as the mallows and poppies did, spreading her toes like roots in the truth and sustenance of ground, while branching out to the rest of the living world and stretching upwards towards the light.

Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather. And it lives.

And so they lived for many a long year, as happy and lighthearted as the birds in the trees and the flowers on the hill in spring.

This music had been played and heard before and would be again, not only here in this church, but in places all over the world, by people living in different circumstances and different times.

Life without music can only be seen in black and white. It takes music to add the color.

Der Mensch sieht sich - zu allen Zeiten und in allen Kulturen - vor das Problem der Lösung der einen und immer gleichen Frage gestellt: wie er sein Abgetrenntsein überwinden, wie er zur Vereinigung gelangen, wie er sein eigenes einzelnes Leben transzendieren und das Einswerden erreichen kann.

Man can only go forward by developing his reason, by finding a new harmony, a human one, instead of the prehuman harmony which is irretrievably lost. When

El hombre no domina la naturaleza, sino que, fundándose sobre el conocimiento de unas cuantas leyes y secretos naturales, se ha erigido en la posición de dueño de aquellos otros seres que carecen de tal conocimiento.

Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement." (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)

Solidarity isn't merely a task, it is a pleasure and the best assurance of security.

El paraíso es un estado de unidad original con la naturaleza.

Sembra un paradosso, ma nell'amore due esseri diventano uno, e tuttavia restano due.

em todos os tipos de obra criadora o trabalhador e seu objeto tornam-se um, o homem se une ao mundo no processo da criação. Isto, porém, só permanece verdadeiro para o trabalho produtivo, para a obra que eu planejo, produzo e em que vejo o resultado de meu trabalho.

Kesatuan yang dicapai dalam kerja produktif tidaklah bersifat antarpribadi; kesatuan yang dicapai dalam peleburan orgiastik bersifat sementara; kesatuan yang dicapai oleh kesesuaian hanyalah kesatuan semu. Oleh karena itu, semuanya hanyalah jawaban parsial atas masalah eksistensi. Jawaban yang utuh terletak pada pencapaian penyatuan antarpribadi, peleburan dengan pribadi lain, dalam cinta. (Terjemahan Andri Kristiawan, Penerbit Gramedia)

En el amor se da la paradoja de dos seres que se convierten en uno y, no obstante, siguen siendo dos.

Regard Earth and Heaven as endowed with intelligence, since they do the work of intelligent beings.

Todos son completamente libres, siempre que no interfieran con los derechos legítimos de los demás.

Solo en la medida en que la práctica de la vida se vea libre de sus contradicciones y de su irracionalidad, el mapa podrá corresponder a su realidad.

Nature is the great power we have to submit to, but living beings are the ones we should dominate.

once torn away from nature, he cannot return to it; once thrown out of paradise—a state of original oneness with nature—cherubim with flaming swords block his way, if he should try to return. Man can only go forward by developing his reason, by finding a new harmony, a human one

sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man—