Quotes About Harmony

Zor zamanlarda itidalini korumay?, güzel anlarda da a??r? sevincini dizginlemeyi hat?rla. -Horatius, Carmina

India belongs not to Punjabis, Biharis, Gujaratis, Madrasis, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, but to those beautiful creatures—peacocks, elephants, tigers, bears…

Poetry, music and literature, he believed, ought not to be interrupted by the banality of war.

They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle—the smoke of her into the solidness of him, the solitariness of her into the gathering of him, the strangeness of her into the straightforwardness of him, the insouciance of her into the restraint of him. The quietness of her into the quietness of him.

The grass looked wetgreen and pleased. Happy earthworms frolicked purple in the slush. Green nettles nodded. Trees bent.

The original Confucian intention, as envisioned by Confucius and Mencius is, simply put, to cultivate ourselves and bring peace and comfort to others.

unity is not uniformity.

Yet compassion and technology aren't necessarily incompatible; they can be mutually reinforcing.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

when we look at our differences and not allow ourselves to be divided, when we own them and are not divided by them, that is when we will be able to move on.

The need for unity is often misnamed as a need for homogeneity

The above forms of human blindness [racism, sexism, heterosexism, homophobia] stem from the same root - an inability to recognize the notion of difference as a dynamic human force, one which is enriching rather than threatening to the defined self, when there are shared goals.

The very word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects — born of Chaos, and personifying creative power and harmony. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

There would be the light of the snow. And then this incredible crescendo of birds.

I give you sugar for sugar And salt for salt If you can't get along with me It's your own damn fault.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in the warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation. They were simply four people who liked being there together.

Listen, here's something we can do: we can look at the moon, sometimes - and, you know, it's the same moon everywhere - and we would be looking at the same thing together that way, you see?

We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.

We went on, cutting through the branches, and it was as if we were swimming through a sea of leaves, with the bushes as waves rising and falling and rising around us, and flinging their green sprays high to the treetops.

We are one in all and all in one.      There are no men but only the great WE,      One, indivisible and forever.—