Quotes About Harmony

Nothing is so cruel as to try and force a man beyond his natural pace.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

we are becoming more, not less, alike ....

Never before has the message of solidarity been so gravely needed. We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

[Of Pembroke College:] Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.

All denominations of Christians have really little difference in point of doctrine, though they may differ widely in external forms.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Collective will supplants individual whim

the situation between Ukraine and Russia is ripe for the outbreak of security competition between them. Great powers that share a long and unprotected common border, like that between Russia and Ukraine, often lapse into competition driven by security fears. Russia and Ukraine might overcome this dynamic and learn to live together in harmony, but it would be unusual if they do."16

Musick is the thing of the world that I love most.

I do hate to be unquiet at home.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

She cut through worlds, and joined them—that's the important part—so that both became bigger.

Your problem, you see, is that essentially you are a logical pervert, looking for a woman with a mutually compatible logical perversion.

All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes." She picked up my machete. "Play something." She held the handle out. "Make music.

I recited in Hebrew, "'Truth and peace form the foundation of the world …

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.