Quotes About Harmony

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

Everything about you suits everything in me.

The ants are my friends- they're blowing in the wind

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.

What we play is life.

Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That's the secret.

What a wonderful world.

For what purpose?" "So they don't devour the other speakers.

each of them was better together than either of them could have been apart.

There is nothing so good and lovely as when man and wife in their home dwell together in unity of mind and disposition.

she realised suddenly that there was something about music that had never been revealed to her before: it was not merely the production of sweet sound; it was, to those who understood it, an emotional and intellectual odyssey.

We had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. Louis de Bernieres as quoted in Underland by Robert Macfarlane.

Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking.

From Elisha Comes to Red Horse : I leave their politics and religion be. Folks can think the way they want, act the way they please, even to acting the fool. All I ask is they don't make too much noise and don't interfere with other people.

We Sackett boys never killed anything we didn't need to eat unless it was coming at us. A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

I would not have the old ways die, for all people in their own way find a path to wisdom. Each way can be a good way. Each has something to offer the world.

in order to have peace both sides must want it equally. One side cannot make peace; they can only surrender.

off the leaves and straightened my clothes, wishing there was

protect her interests. Of late she had refused to admit there might be occasions when fighting could not be avoided. She had yet to learn that in order to have peace both sides must want it

there's nothing better than two, a man and woman, who walk together. When they walk right together there's no way too long, no night too dark.

But if you understand … where there is understanding there is no hate. Outside

It was a pity, he reflected, that the men of good will are so poorly armed, for at times it was a handicap not to hate.

No. Until man can order his own affairs, until he ceases to prey on his brothers, he will need someone to maintain order. A lawman is not a restraint, but a freedom, a liberation. He restrains only those who would break the laws and provides freedom for the rest of us to work, to laugh, to sing, to play in peace.