Quotes About Harmony

But the true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they freely concede to every one else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional necessity, and in all cases a temporary one; and preferring, whenever possible, the society of those with whom leading and following can be alternate and reciprocal.

The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my knowing that the cloud is a vapour of water, subject to all the laws of vapours in a state of suspension; and I am just as likely to allow for, and act on, these physical laws whenever there is occasion to do so, as if I had been incapable of perceiving any distinction between beauty and ugliness.

La diferencia puede atraer, pero lo que retiene es la semejanza; y los individuos pueden darse recíprocamente felicidad según sean más o menos semejantes entre sí.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

people are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others.

Institutional goals, however sane and well-intentioned, are unable to harmonize deeply with the uniqueness of individual human goals.

The natural solution to learning to live together in a community is first to learn to live apart as individuals and as families. Only when you feel good about yourself can you feel good about others.

Only when you feel good about yourself can you feel good about others.

Copernicus took us out of the centre of the solar system; we now need to take ourselves out of the centre of the biosphere."52

All things are from the whole, and the whole is from all things.

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

The Titanides were delighted, they hadn't know the humans had songs.

Gaea is one. Gaea is alive. We live inside her.

Titanides were masters of song. Their whole language was song; music was as important to them as food.

Bill, in free-fall, it doesn't matter who's on top.

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

A horse is a horse,it ain´t make a difference what color it is

A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves.

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.

Think and let think.

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may.

Those without enough love experience rage, but love drives rage away.

its flatness, and its yellow-greenness, its high walls of mountain wooded with the deep green of pine in which ran the flaming red-gold of turning aspen, its jutting rock and hillock, all roofed with the intense blue of the airless sky—it seemed to him that the contours of the place flowed beneath his eyes, that his very gaze shaped what he saw, and in turn gave his own existence form and place.