Quotes About Harmony

Peace and order could only be achieved when all classes of society were in harmony with each other. Disorder – such as heresy, rebellion, or trying to get above one's station in life – was regarded as the work of the Devil and therefore as mortal sin.

As the wise Cicero said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

She loved the intimacy of making music together in private.

No Words,' for example, was two songs that became one song.54 I wrote the first few verses and couldn't get any further. I took them to Paul, and he added his little bit of magic.

His goal now, he continued, was to write "just kind of songy songs that the milkman can whistle."4

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

Trees hang their branches

Heaven balanced on a grassblade

A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

As soon as two or more people are together there is inevitably conflict, even if they like and respect each other. In order to resolve those conflicts there needs to be good will on both sides, and a willingness to give and take.

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

People are alike in many ways. In other ways, people are different. These differences are called diversity. Without diversity, everyone would be exactly the same and that would make the world a very boring place. Accept each infant or child as someone special.

One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.

They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, idealist and pragmatist, dreamer and cynic.

fear them?" "One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.

who tries to please everyone pleases no one at all.

In times of peace, the warlike man attacks himself.' Friedrich Nietzsche

Some men are like water. No matter how high they are lifted, they always yearn to return to the appropriate level.

The American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us.

All our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together.