Quotes About Harmony

The way to peace is to be content with yourself, honor the light of reason within, live in harmony with others, and be grateful to the gods for the universe and your role in it.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

To watch the courses of the stars as if you revolved with them. To keep constantly in mind how the elements alter into one another. Thoughts like this wash off the mud of life below.

23. Nature takes substance and makes a horse. Like a sculptor with wax. And then melts it down and uses the material for a tree. Then for a person. Then for something else. Each existing only briefly. It does the container no harm to be put together, and none to be taken apart.

To the world: Your harmony is mine. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.

That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.

it will help you a great deal to keep the gods in mind as well. What they want is not flattery, but for rational things to be like them. For figs to do what figs were meant to do—and dogs, and bees Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and people.

Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy.

Remember: philosophy requires only what your nature already demands. What you've been after is something else again—something unnatural.

11. When thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to thyself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.

tranquillity is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

Remember: philosophy requires only what your nature already demands.

57. To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

No difference between here and there: the city that you live in is the world.

When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason that governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

Human society is a single organism, like an individual human body or a tree. But

14. You have functioned as a part of something; you will vanish into what produced you. Or be restored, rather. To the logos from which all things spring. By being changed.

For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.

When human nature rebels against Mother Nature, humanity becomes a cancer on the earth. The natures of all things are nested within nature as a whole. When you reject what life gives you, you place yourself in opposition to nature—including your own nature—and so harm yourself.

Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and and enfolding of things governed by Providence.

This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.