Quotes About Harmony

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.

I can't get on girls' wavelengths at all. I think we are completely different. I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. If we could all get along occasionally though, that would be nice.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav

Actually it is the way in which men always, everywhere, keep the peace, when no one of them has a recognized right to use force. Then each one feels his responsibility. This is the way Americans kept the peace on the frontier, and keep it now on fishing and hunting trips and in clubrooms.

Being in on the secret might be a lot of fun when you're a kid, but not so much once you realize how often life hinges on everyone agreeing--at least outwardly--on the same reality.

You will be one of the menders of this world; not the makers, nor yet the breakers, just one of the menders.

connected to the divine,

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

In many two-parent families, one parent is primarily disposed toward imposition of adult will (convinced that more authority would get things squared away), and the other is primarily disposed toward just letting things go (having become convinced that more authority is only making things worse and that family peace is more important than compliance).

And it's a lot easier when your kid is your partner instead of your enemy.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them.