Quotes About Harmony

To translate all this into practical terms I would say that a well composed mixed hors-d'œuvre consists, approximately, of something raw, something salt, something dry or meaty, something gentle and smooth and possibly something in the way of fresh fish. Simplified though it is, a choice based roughly on these lines won't be far wrong.

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.

This silence was woven of many sounds: of long soft owl calls, of tree frogs' voices, of invisible wings fluttering past a window, and above all the delicate, ceaseless breathing of the woods.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song.

Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.

A close union with the earth seemed to involve one in unison with a good deal more than the earth.

There was no resentment in her manner, for acceptance and not resentment was the essence of her...

What an idiot she had been to try and make Le Paradis wholly her own. It was of the essence of home that it should hold out its arms to diverse personalities and gather them together into a harmonious whole. A house stamped with one personality only was surely more like the cell of a prisoner condemned to solitary confinement than a home.

It takes a happy marriage to make light of small things.

She had "green fingers" and knew them to be one of the happiest gifts that the gods can give.

A garden always has a point.

could one do a compatibility test based on favourite books? Could an Anais Nin fan love a Dean Koontz fan? An Alice Munro woman love a James Joyce man?

Xas wouldn't show Flora the fine print, because what all the old songs had to say was true—in Heaven there was no trouble

Time and time again, people have demonstrated that they care about what Rachel Carson called "the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures," and that they're willing to make sacrifices on those creatures' behalf.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

Such is the economy of nature," he wrote, "that no instance can be produced of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken.

might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

Rumi says: Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing There is a field. I'll meet you there.

Only people who claim their own voice can hear the true song of another.