Harmony Quotes - Page 39

• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Taken, Artist

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• When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Buddhism, Doors

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• If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Study, Problem

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• We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Sweet, Men

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• He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

  Chuck Mangione

  Strong, Interesting, Ingredients

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• It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Song, Husband, Sound

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• The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

  Ada Lovelace

  Expression, Numbers, Musical

  "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage". Book by L.F. Menabrea. Scientific Memoirs (Richard Taylor): 694, 1842.

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• All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Flames, Fire, People

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• I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

  George Benson

  Teaching, Theory, Instruments

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, 1992.

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• One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Connected, Colorless

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• I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Simple, Years, Play

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• The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.44, Vintage

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• It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Heaven, Soul, Quality

  Ford Madox Ford (2002). “Parade's End: Some Do Not...; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up - ; The Last Post”, p.626, Penguin UK

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• I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

  Toni Servillo

  Life Changing, Thinking, Sea

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• In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.

  Mantak Chia

  Love, Inspirational, Best Friend

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• Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any antagonistic situation, see its complementarity , and help others to do the same, thereby establishing peace and harmony.

  George Ohsawa

  Helping Others, Reality, Two Sides

  George Ohsawa (1984). “Macrobiotics: The Way of Healing”, p.55, George Ohsawa Macrobiotic

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• One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

  Criss Jami

  Emotional, Perspective, Understanding

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.

  PSY

  Song, Regret, People

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• Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.

  Christian D. Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Imagination

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• This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Karma, Men, Law

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• Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction...but they feel no shame.

  Fabio Novembre

  Sex, Ideas, Two

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• Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

  Leon Trotsky

  Social, Social Harmony, Bureaucracy

  Leon Trotsky (2012). “The Revolution Betrayed”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.

  Dee Hock

  Nature, Struggle, Years

  "The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock". Interview with M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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• Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

  Don Coppersmith

  Self Esteem, Heart, Self Confidence

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