Quotes About Harmony

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

We must all hang together or we shall most assuredly all hang separately.

We must hang together or we will surely hang separately

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.'' - Benjamin Franklin

Silence is golden

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

I hope...that all mankind will at length…have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats.

where there is more Sail than Ballast.

Convertí en regla evitar toda contradicción directa con respecto a los sentimientos de otros, y toda afirmación tajante de los míos.

the nations that have thrived have been those, like America, that are most comfortable with the cacophony, and even occasional messiness, that come from robust discourse

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done in done.

What we need to do is recognize inner nature and work with things as they are. When we don't we get in trouble.

If you compare the City with the Forest, you may begin to wonder why it's man who goes around classifying himself as The Superior Animal. "Superior to what?" asked Pooh. "I don't know, Pooh. I've tried to think of something, but I just can't come up with an answer." "If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world," said Pooh.

Cleverness, as usual, takes all the credit it possibly can. But it's not the clever mind that's responsible when things work out. It's the mind that sees what's in front of it, and follows the nature of things.

In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between "superior" and "inferior" to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.

The hardheaded followers of the previously mentioned Party-Crashing Busybody religion failed to appreciate the beauty of the endless forest and clear waters that appeared before them on the fresh green continent of the New World. Instead, they saw the paradise that was there and the people who lived in harmony with it as alien and threatening, something to attack and conquer - because it all stood in the way of the Great Reward.

If you compare the City with the Forest, you may begin to wonder why it's man who goes around classifying himself as The Superior Animal. "Superior to what?" asked Pooh. "I don't know, Pooh. I've tried to think of something, but I just can't come up with an answer." "If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world," said Pooh. "That's true," I said.

In other words, everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong. One man's food is often another man's poison, and what is glamorous and exciting to some can be a dangerous trap to others.