Quotes About Harmony

In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists;

pig and an elephant

Here it is… your moment of Zen.

If we learn to read the birds-and their behaviors and vocalizations-through them, we can read the world at large... if we replace collision with connection, learn to read these details, feel at home, relax, and are respectful--ultimately the birds will yield to us the first rite of passage: a close encounter with an animal otherwise wary of our presence.

it is never just the robins communicating with the other robins, the song sparrows with the other song sparrows, the juncos with the other juncos. In the yard and in the trees, it's everyone communicating with (because they are eavesdropping on) everyone else—spring, summer, fall, and winter: ripples within ripples, a vast web with many seams and confusions; concentric rings bouncing off concentric rings; subtle sounds, subtle scents, subtle movements.

My tribe deserves more than your tribe.

You want me to be rational. The most rational thing is the machine. Go to the machines. All their separate parts work together. But I live with no purpose, irrationally.

Aš galvoju, kad visai nesvarbu, kokioj gamtoj, kokiam gamtovaizdy žmogus, tauta gyvena. Kas svarbu, yra tai, k? jis ? t? gamtovaizd? deda.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life

Aš, vaikas, s?d?davau ant lauko ežios ir ži?r?davau, kaip mano t?vas su s?tuve ant kaklo eidavo per lauk?, l?tai, vienodu žingsniu, mostas buvo sujungtas kartu su žeme, su lauku, su tom s?klom: joks jogas niekados nebus ar?iau šito pasaulio, šitos žem?s, kaip ?kininkas.

We believe you should throw out your Blackberry and go pick some actual blackberries.

We told the truth. We obeyed the law. We kept the peace.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. Every soul there, is as a note in some concert of delightful music, that sweetly harmonizes with every other note, and all together blend in the most rapturous strains in praising God and the Lamb forever.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other, is by music. When I would form in my mind an idea of a society in the highest degree happy, I think of them as expressing their love, their joy, and the inward concord and harmony and spiritual beauty of their souls by sweetly singing to each other.

You can't condemn a man for wanting peace. If you do, you condemn peace itself.

calling him "a fierce fighter and a man of peace.

It means something, I think, when Thai people learn how to cook Vietnamese noodles for Hong Kongborn teenagers, and as big a fan as I am of authenticity, it probably means something good.

What is it about legs? Or what is it about breasts? Or the small of the back? What is it about anything? One day there will be no difference between anything. It'll all be the exact same thing. One day you'll look in the dictionary and there will be only one word and you'll just have to make do.

Happiness comes from between. It comes from getting the right relationships between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and something larger than yourself.

If you ask people to sing a song together, or to march in step, or just to tap out some beats together on a table, it makes them trust each other more and be more willing to help each other out, in part because it makes people feel more similar to each other.