Quotes About Harmony

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

The Universe said, 'Let me show your soul something beautiful.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Greed, crowned emperor, rules the earth with cold disdain for harmony's path.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

We can gain a lot more striving for harmonious coexistence than we can by giving in to hate-filled rage and fear-driven ignorance.

In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.

The songs we play, is the life we live

I am not conscious of any harm that I have done or wished to any mortal. I bear no malice to any being. To my enemies, if any I have, I am willing to afford assistance; therefore towards man I maintain a conscience void of offense.

Abigail Gehring

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I'm ashamed of our human capacity to hurt and maim one another, to desecrate the body. Yet it allows me to see the cabalistic harmony of heart peeking out behind lung, of liver and spleen consulting each other under the dome of the diaphragm -- these things leave me speechless.

fused, or—imagine this—sharing one trunk with two necks?

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. —Rabindranath Tagore

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." They are far from being all one.

Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost.