Quotes About Harmony

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

Song of Solomon told me a man and woman's passion is intended to be mutual." His smile dissolved and he looked troubled. "A shared blessing.

There's order everywhere: the stars, the seasons, the currents of the ocean, the air that moves over the planet, down to the cells that make up everything.

There's order everywhere: the stars, the seasons, the currents of the ocean, the air that moves over the planet, down to the cells that make up everything. I don't believe that's by chance or a series of accidents. It takes intelligence to create all that, intelligence beyond anything human beings can understand. That's part of why I believe in God.

When two oxen are yoked together, they must pull in the same direction, Marcus. If one pulls to the right, and the other to the left, what happens?

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

A ciência sem religião é coxa, a religião sem a ciência é cega.' Alber Einstein (1941). p.176

I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed over a cliff, but I found it difficult to imagine that there could be a real conflict between scientific truth and spiritual truth. Truth is truth. Truth cannot disprove truth.

In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?

Trading off with Fredericks, he felt almost outside himself, listening to the magic flow, the shift of colors, hearing the pulse, watching his hands do their amazing work. As he shaped the music in his mind and played it, he felt Fredericks shaping and playing right along with him, their souls joined in harmonious enterprise, like two old friends who can talk without words, who can communicate a thought even before it has fully emerged, because the same thought is nascent in the other.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

The terrain enforced its own rhythms.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.

Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other. —Proverbs of Muad'Dib

They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. —

When you take your stand along the maker's path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.