Quotes About Harmony

We were all people—men and women—and you could never say that one group of people was less important than another.

How can you have a peaceful country where one half of the population thinks that the other is wrong, or hostile, or determined to do them down? What better recipe for unhappiness was there than that?

Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.

To be free Is often to be lonely. He would unite The unequal moieties fractured By our own well-meaning sense of justice Would restore to the larger the wit and will The smaller possess but can only use For arid disputes, would give back to The son the mother's richness of feeling …

There are many more kind people than not-so-kind people," said Mma Ramotswe.

Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie

IF EITHER OF THEM had felt tetchy, the concert put them both in a good mood.

Reflections on human smallness have often prompted me to think that. What do divisions between people matter? What does it matter if somebody is English or Scottish or whatever?

There are plenty of good stories. There are plenty of good people who go through life without … well, without anger. Who are kind to other folk. Who don't rant and rage.

and the vestiges of that early feeling were still there, as she could not bring herself to punish the snails or caterpillars for their depredations. They were her fellow creatures, after all. They had not asked to be snails or caterpillars, and they needed to eat, as we all did.

you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.

We should love one another, she thought, not only because it was the right thing to do, but also because it was far easier than hating one another. People who hated often had to work quite hard at keeping their hatred warm.

He thought that perhaps she had been thinking the same thing, which was unlikely, but a nice thought anyway—that two people who liked one another should think the same thought at the same time.

The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.

If you don't have things to keep you busy, you end up starting fights with your neighbours.

Alexander McCall Smith

There are so many people who would love to be able to live in peace, but there are so many others who do not want to let them.

Alexander McCall Smith

Ulf sighed. Why could people not live together in harmony? Why did people think that berating and assaulting others should do anything but make everything worse for everybody?

He's happy now, he's almost sane.

And the world is where we belong, all of it.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?

the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.