Harmony (quotes)

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Harmony is a state of agreement or pleasing arrangement of parts

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The rewards of harmony

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Harmony creates happiness

  • But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
  • Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
  • Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
  • The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. Cyril Connolly
  • Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do. Deepak Chopra
  • Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. James Allen
  • This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. Herman Hesse
  • Happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. Suze Orman
  • Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti
  • Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. Gabriela Sabatini
  • Happiness
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Harmony creates health

  • Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a ‘sound mind in a sound body’. Jostein Gaarder
  • We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work. Stephen Covey
  • Love, peace, joy & harmony are the best vitamins in the universe. Philip Arnold
  • Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.  K.S. Iyengar
  • Health
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Harmony creates peace

  • If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world. Sathya Sai Baba
  • Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. Laini Taylor
  • Inner peace
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More rewards of harmony

  • He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius
  • With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth
  • Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. Sallust
  • Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. Sallust
  • To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.  Dogen Zenji
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Let there be harmony in your life

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Open your mind, heart and soul to harmony

  • I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Edith Armstrong
  • Affirm divine calmness and peace and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system. Paramahansa Yogananda
  • However, when we shift our awareness or “frequency” from self-consciousness –where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside — to cosmic consciousness, which is in total harmony with the universe and where none of those feelings exist, then anything is possible. Rhonda Byrne
  • Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt
  • When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. Toba Beta
  • The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.  K.S. Iyengar
  • I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony. Leni Riefenstahl
  • A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And this is the greatest art there is. His life will be a joy to see. Osho
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Let there be harmony between what you think, believe, feel, say and do

  • Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
  • Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
  • One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life. Napoleon Hill
  • Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Mahatma Gandhi
  • Keep your thoughts and feelings in harmony with your actions. The surest way to realize your purpose is to eliminate any conflict that exists between what you’re thinking and feeling and how you are living your days. Wayne Dyer
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Let there be harmony between your body, heart, mind and soul

  • Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. Gabriela Sabatini
  • There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored. Brian L. Weiss
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Let there be harmony between your behaviour and values

  • The highest morality is personal integrity—living in harmony with your own value system. Alan Cohen
  • Living with integrity means behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Barbara De Angelis
  • Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way. Stephen Covey
  • Values
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Let there be harmony between you and others

  • If life isn’t about human beings and living in harmony, then I don’t know what it’s about. Orlando Bloom
  • I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.  Benjamin Spock
  • Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. Soren Kierkegaard
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Where to find harmony

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Find harmony through love

  • Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. James Allen
  • Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. Lope de Vega
  • Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. Lope de Vega
  • In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. Eva Evelyn Burrows
  • It is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. Mitsugi Saotome
  • Love
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Find harmony through appreciating differences

  • When they are done right, harmony appears by itself. The more numerous and varied they are, the more the effect is obtained and agreeable to the eye. Paul Cezanne
  • If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon
  • You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd
  • The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony. Heraclitus
  • Variety is the condition of harmony. Thomas Carlyle
  • Diversity
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Find harmony from discord and strife

  • Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
  • Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. Heraclitus of Ephesus
  • To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things. Will Durant
  • You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd
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Find harmony between the contradictions

  • To create a vision of the harmony of the unequal, balance the infinite variety, the chaotic, the contradictions – in a unity.  Hans Richter
  • Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.   Audre Lorde
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Find harmony through simplicity and eliminating superfluous elements

  • I’ve come to realize that where harmony is concerned, more can be achieved with less color. Scott L. Christensen
  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. Plato
  • The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well- being that places harmony in one’s life. Peace Pilgrim
  • All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements. Henri Matisse
  • Simplicity
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Find harmony through simple and frugal living

  • Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. Plato
  • The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well- being that places harmony in one’s life. Peace Pilgrim
  • To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony. William Ellery Channing
  • Simple living
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Find harmony through experimenting

  • Unfortunately, no rules can be given to guide him in difficult question of harmony; he must try different combinations, and not be content until he gets something which he feels at once is beautiful. John Collie
  • Experimentation
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Find harmony between the different parts of your life

  • Balance doesn’t exist, but proportion and harmony do. Danielle LaPorte
  • To be a whole person we need to fully recognize that we have these very distinct parts of our life, and that each part needs to be honored and tended to. Danielle LaPorte
  • To harmonize our life, we need to let each part of it have center stage when it feels most urgent and ripe. Danielle LaPorte
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Find harmony through the search for meaning

  • The search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself. John O’Donohue
  • Meaning
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Find harmony in living for a purpose

  • It’s not the imbalances of life that will get you down—it’s doing meaningless things that aren’t taking you where you want to go. The more you pursue what you’re passionate about at any given time, the less friction and more fluidity you’ll have in your life. And that’s the definition of harmony. Danielle LaPorte
  • Mankind’s role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things. Morihei Ueshiba
  • The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose and has rightly bestowed the name not of “disordered” but of “ordered universe” upon the whole. Aristotle
  • Purpose
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Find harmony through a balanced life

  • Balance is a feeling derived from being whole and complete; it’s a sense of harmony. It is essential to maintaining quality in life and work. Natalie A. Gahrmann
  • Balance
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Find harmony through going with the flow in life

  • Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences – good or bad – with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love. Susan Jeffers
  • Flow is the natural, effortless unfolding of our life in a way that moves us towards wholeness and harmony. Charlene Belitz & Meg Lundstrom
  • Go with the flow
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Find harmony with nature

  • Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
  • The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. Ruth Bernhard
  • Every corny thing that’s said about living with nature – being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons – happens to be true. Susan Orlean
  • A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature is a unity in diversity…a harmony, blending together all created things…one great whole animated by the breath of life. Alexander von Humboldt
  • When we pay attention to nature’s music, we find that everything on the earth contributes to its harmony. Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Nature
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Find harmony with the environment

  • Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Aldo Leopold
  • Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Aldo Leopold
  • Care for the environment
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Find harmony in music

  • Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord. Plutarch
  • There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. Thomas Browne
  • If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon
  • Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. Xun Zi
  • Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. Cat Stevens
  • Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. Henri Frederic Amiel
  • Music
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Find harmony in art

  • Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony. Gino Severini
  • Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations. Georges Seurat
  • To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. Paul Cezanne
  • To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke. Paul Klee
  • All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements. Henri Matisse
  • The artist has to feel the harmony first, it can’t be faked; it breathes itself out through the pores of the fingers and the pores of the paint, only when it is so strong it can’t be held in any longer. Marney Ward
  • In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony. Albert Einstein
  • Independent of harmony rules, any color ‘goes’ or ‘works’ with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate. Josef Albers
  • A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. Corita Kent
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On a lighter note

  • Domestic Harmony: Music produced only if the husband plays second fiddle.
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