Quotes About Harmony

Sexual desire does not obey the laws that maintain peace and contentment between partners. Reason, understanding, compassion, and camaraderie are the handmaidens of a close, harmonious relationship. But sex often evokes unreasoning obsession rather than thoughtful judgment, and selfish desire rather than altruistic consideration. Aggression, objectification, and power all

I want to want to try to never waste energy degrading someone else. Also, I want to try not to see life as a competition.

Layton combined dialogue, song, and dance in a fluidly shifting action

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together, he said. I like to see a thing finished.

FIRE CHIEF: Life is very simple, really. [To the Smiths:] Go on and kiss each other.

The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

The hand that stretches the bow must open like a child's hand opens. What sometimes hinders the precision of the shot is the archer's over-active will. He thinks: What I fail to do will not be done, and that's not quite how things work. Man should always act, but he must also let other forces of the universe act in their own due time.

the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating... that collectedness and presence of mind...the right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the preparing and the creating, the technical and the artistic, the material and the spiritual, the project and the object, flow together without a break.

We are, in other words, continuous with everything here on earth. Including, and especially, each other.

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

Morality is not a one not song. It's a harmony of obligations to man and God.

Annihilating all that's madeTo a green thought in a green shade.

And all the way, to guide their chime,With falling oars they kept the time.

The inglorious arts of peace.

Music, the mosaic of the air

To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

Things got better and better between them as the weeks passed by. There was never any 'Is it on or is it off?' It wasn't as complicated because they got on so well. That was the nice thing about it, a straightforward love story.

This needs a woman's touch', was her common refrain. Her view in essence was that so many issues and problems in a male-dominated world derive from the aggressive, secretive and often insensitive masculine ego. Problems could be more effectively addressed, she felt, when female qualities, as she saw them, of intuition, compassion, compromise and harmony were added to the equation.

Eventually we become part of our surroundings, and they become part of us.

After a victory there are no enemies, only men.'2

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.