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• Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

  Vera Nazarian

  Song, Sound, Poor

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• Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

  Herbert Marcuse

  Lying, Reason, Form

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.144, Beacon Press

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• We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

  Radhanath Swami

  Soul, Mind, Purpose

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• We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Vanity, Color

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.17, St. Martin's Press

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• Whatever happens... men, women and children have to be prepared to put other people first and thereby create the miracle of the species which is people living together in harmony and putting other people first, before themselves.

  Bob Maguire

  Children, Men, People

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• And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

  Pete Seeger

  Feet, People, Ceilings

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• I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.

  Louise Hay

  Animal, Special, Balance

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• Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

  Maria Montessori

  Lying, Appreciate, Refinement

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.179, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def ined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Community, Quality, World

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• I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Men, Space

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• Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.

  Anodea Judith

  Love Is, States, Oneself

  Anodea Judith (2012). “Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System”, p.201, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Lakes, Mind, Depth

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• Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Humanity, Risk, Vision

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• Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you'll attract more of the same.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Joy, Higher

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 18, 2010

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• The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.

  Christian D. Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Mind

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.283, Penguin

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• Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.

  Gregory J. P. Godek

  Love, Two, Soul

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• But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Reality, Growth

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• You have to be able to focus, to control your energy. You need to make it your ally, instead of trying to harness it, to muscle it. That wastes energy too. There has to be a harmony between you and your body. Your mind and your body, and your soul have to connect in order to move forward. And this comes through relaxation.

  Elvis Stojko

  Moving Forward, Order, Focus

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• The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

  Franz Liszt

  Cosmos, Spirit, Supreme

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• Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Perfect, Training

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “What Are You Doing with Your Life?”, p.34, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• We Christians bring peace and grace as a treasure to be offered to the world, but these gifts can bear fruit only when Christians live and work together in harmony. This makes it easier to contribute to building relations of respect and peaceful coexistence with those who belong to other religious traditions, and with non-believers.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

  Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991”

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• I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Simple, Feelings

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Moral, Kind

  Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (1985). “The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton”, p.378, New Directions Publishing

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• When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mind, Body, Spirit

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment”, p.30, Random House

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