Harmony quotes

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‚convulsions of nature,‘ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

No violent extreme endures.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

I am two with nature.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.