Quotes About Harmony

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

El Tao de cultivar la vida requiere que uno se mantenga tan fluido y flexible como pueda. No hay que permanecer quieto demasiado tiempo, y tampoco hay que agotarse

El verdadero sabio gobierna a las personas «cuidando de ellas y alimentándolas, pero sin reclamarlas para sí», y elimina los motivos de disputa en vez de castigar las consecuencias:

Schubert's String Quartet in D Minor

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French and Swiss villages existed side by side along a largely invisible border, but Switzerland did not wish to wipe France from the map. Nor did the Swiss beseech their sons to shed the blood of French infidels. Gradually

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Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.

Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.

Gottfried Leibniz wrote that music's pleasure consisted of "unconscious counting" or an "arithmetical exercise of which we are unaware.

Salvation is to accept one's place in the story of faith whose theme is shalom.

Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!

To cover the houses and the stones with green—so the sky would make sense—you have to push down black roots into the dark. —CESARE PAVESE

We need new rituals to awaken us to the fact that we are not separate from the land, water, and sky. We need ceremonies putting us back in touch, and urging us to conserve the resources that give life to everything in existence. We need to once again think as part of something greater, to view reality from a place higher than the narrow confines of a shortsighted ego. Empathy toward other living things should be one of the very first lessons instilled by all religions.

Those who have never approached their bodies as temples have no idea of what they are missing. The frog at the bottom of the well sees only a fraction of light and believes it to be the whole sky.

Two people in a relationship are like two stars who rotate around each other, attracted by each other's energy, but not dependent on each other.

The peaceful side of nature, speaks to our soul in whispers."

but a perfect home was as clear a sign of dysfunction as a slovenly one.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

I wish to live in peace with myself and not with the world.