Quotes About Harmony

If hate's the gate to peace This is the last stop

What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Opposites attract. If two people just alike get married, one of you is unnecessary. LARRY BURKETT

Yet few are as deep-rooted and damaging as the habitual tendency to view the sensuous earth as a subordinate space—whether as a sinful plane, riddled with temptation, needing to be transcended and left behind; or a menacing region needing to be beaten and bent to our will; or simply a vaguely disturbing dimension to be avoided, superseded, and explained away.

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. —Leonardo da Vinci

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

The real world, I'm afraid, is a lot more complex and dangerous, and sometimes it takes the ugly parts of life to keep the beautiful parts alive.

Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.

They lived and they laughed and they saw it was good

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

We moved from being a part of nature to being apart from nature.

We ourselves (one single species) have taken over vast tracts of the inhabitable surface of the planet. Surely, we should allow those other creatures we share the planet with to retain some part of their ancient heritage.

To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world!

It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance.

If we were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if they were to disappear, the land's ecosystems would collapse.

Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.