Quotes About Harmony

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

I only do work that suits my temperament.

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

Well, a daughter is someone you've grown up with, right? So you know her temperament, you know what makes her angry and how to deal with that person. You're meeting your daughter-in-law when she is an adult already and you don't quite know what her temperament is like, so it takes time to gel.

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

When a temple catches fire, irrespective of their faith, everyone works to douse the flames. Similarly, all parties worked against the forces that imposed Emergency.

For me, music is God and each song I make is an offering at the temple of music.

The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. There's a certain tempo to it, just like in music.

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, A cave where the cave men dwell; Then a sense of law and order, A face upturned from the clod; Some call it Evolution, And others call it God." Reprinted from The New England Journal.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of 'win-win' harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

O balances sentimentales.