Quotes About Harmony

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

We have lived for thousands of years together, Muslims and Christians; we are part of the same society.

People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds stop singing that people need to worry.

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

I hope that I can find the common thread that connects us all and say: We can build a better Canada together.

Our biggest threat is not too much Europe, but too little.

Sufis were always spreading love with their music, and if some kind of extremism is a threat to it, it is a threat to all humanity.

The divisiveness that threatens the fabric of our nation - whether due to race, religion, political ideology, gender, sexual orientation, or other - must end.

One of the things that I've never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that I don't like, or the existence of a gamer who's different than me, threatens my very existence and the very existence of my hobby.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at.

What's interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

Piano is one of those instruments you don't have to be good at to sound good - you just have to know where to put three little fingers, which is really pretty easy to figure out.