Quotes About Harmony

Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

Tree forsakes not the flower—the flower falls from the tree.

Des par tous et tous par un.

Has not some sage said, 'Nothing too much'? and another, 'I carry all my effects with me'? I have

Birinin yokluÄŸunun kederi, diÄŸerinin yokluÄŸunun sevincini dengeliyordu.

Ils avaient poussé l'un à côté de l'autre comme deux arbres qui mêlent leurs racines sous le sol, leurs branches dans l'air, leur parfum dans le ciel ; seulement leur désir de se voir était le même

Without common ideas, there is no common action, and without common action men still exist, but a social body does not. Thus in order that there be society, and all the more, that this society prosper, it is necessary that all the minds of the citizens always be brought together and held together by some principle ideas

One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic.

In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

All men being equally weak, each would feel equally in need of his fellow man's support and, knowing that cooperation was the condition of that support, would readily see that his private interest was subsumed in the general interest.

In order that society should exist, and a fortiori, that a society should prosper, it is required that all the minds of the citizens should be rallied and held together by certain predominant ideas...

One of the most familiar weaknesses of the human mind is the wish to reconcile contrary principles and buy peace at the expense of logic.

In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country.

The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow-creatures, and of acting in common with them. I am therefore led to conclude that the right of association is almost as inalienable as the right of personal liberty. No legislator can attack it without impairing the very foundations of society.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

If kings and peoples had only had their true interests in view ever since the beginning of the world, the name of war would scarcely be known among mankind.

A man is a member of society first, and an individual second. You must go along with society, whether it chooses destruction or not.

Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel

Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you can.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

What you send out comes back to you threefold. What you give to the world returns in kind. Blood begets blood.

Her gift with wild birds allowed her to bring them to her merely by lifting her hand. From a distance, when she ran so fast she was nearly flying, it seemed as if she spoke their language, and was meant for their world more than her own.