Harmony Quotes - Page 10

• Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

  Stephen Covey

  Principles, Negative, Behavior

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

  Eliphas Levi

  Law, Analogies, Movement

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.425, Weiser Books

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• By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Vision, Glory, Divine

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.157, Shambhala Publications

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• It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Effort, Trying

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• Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

  Plato

  Soul, Principles, Way

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• If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Struggle, Goal

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

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• Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Environment, Divine

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

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• How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

  Paul Simon

  Two, Voice, Backgrounds

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• A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

  Livy

  Peace, Victory, Anti War

  "The History of Rome".

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• Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Men, Arms

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Peace, Men, World

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• The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Men, Dying

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Justice, Decision

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.408, NYU Press

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• Conformity is the ape of harmony.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Apes, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.492, Harvard University Press

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• He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, Soul, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, Fall, Humility

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

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• Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Differences

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• Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Peace, Tree, Form

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• Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Peace, Strong, War

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Doe, Impossible

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.217, University of Georgia Press

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• Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

  George Santayana

  Peace, Philosophy, Reason

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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