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Quotes About Harmony

From nature's point of view no creatures are useful or not useful. That's just a foolish distinction applied by people.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
S gledišta prirode nema korisnih i nekorisnih bi?a. To je samo glupavo razlikovanje koje primjenjuju ljudi." str. 156.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
How wonderful – to translate from one language to another, and by so doing to bring people closer to one another – what a beautiful idea.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
One can put up with the petty things that hardly cause any discomfort, but not with senseless, ubiquitous cruelty. It's perfectly simple—if other people are happy, we're happy too. The simplest equation in the world.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate. That is how it works. Like a Japanese car.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
A menudo me pregunto por qué nos gustan unas personas y no otras. Y sobre este tema tengo mi propia teoría: existe una forma armónica e ideal a la que de manera instintiva tiende nuestro cuerpo. Escogemos en los otros aquellos rasgos que podrían cumplir con ese ideal. El objetivo de la evolución es meramente estético y nada tiene que ver con ninguna adaptación. A la evolución lo que le interesa es la belleza, alcanzar la máxima perfección de cada forma
~ Olga Tokarczuk
And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
He looks like a guy who discovered not so long ago that he's not really so different from everybody else - thus attaining, in other words, his own enlightenment. (page 408)
~ Olga Tokarczuk
As it says in Blake: "Opposition is true friendship.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The people aren't in a hurry, and don't compete against each other all the time. They don't go chasing after pipe dreams. They're happy with who they are and what they have.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Kto? taki jak pan b?dzie budzi? niech?? i nienawi??, bo b?dzie jasno przypomina?, ?e wizja ?wiata bia?o-czarnego jest wizj? k?amliw? i niszcz?c?.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
D. zaczyna? cokolwiek widzie?, gdy siada? przed ekranem swojego komputera. Mia? wtedy przed sob? porz?dek i niesko?czon? harmoni?, prostot? dróg, które prowadz? do celu, jasno?? wyborów, ogromny potencja? my?li. Zaraz za tym do?wiadcza? spokoju, jaki bierze si? ze ?wiadomo?ci bycia wolnym. W pewnych granicach. Ale czy mo?na mówi? o jakichkolwiek granicach, kiedy tworzy si? ?wiaty?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Imagining is essentially creative; it is a bridge reconciling matter and spirit.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.
~ Olive Schreiner
Birds seem to be the happiest creatures on earth, yet they have none of what we call the comforts of life.
~ Unknown
The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
There are only three words you need to live by, son: respect, consideration and tolerance.
~ Oliver Jeffers
Music is part of being human.
~ Oliver Sacks
My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
~ Oliver Sacks
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
~ Oliver Tambo
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
~ Oliver Tambo
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes