Harmonious Quotes - Page 3

• Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic,
  all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.

  Scott Cunningham

  Practice, Magic, Wish

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.17, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Sports, Intelligent, Sea

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• My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

  Laozi

  Medicine, Mind, Taoism

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.

  Laozi

  Oneness, Giving, Understanding

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• I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Cells, Law

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 64, 1983.

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• When the heart is open and balanced, we enter into a state of attraction to what we need, because the power of love is magnetic and harmonious.

  Sonia Choquette

  Heart, Love Is, Needs

  Sonia Choquette (2010). “True Balance: A Commonsense Guide for Renewing Your Spirit”, p.120, Harmony

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• I live in a loving, abundant, harmonious universe, and I am grateful.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Aug 21, 2013

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• The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Strong, Women, Important

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• At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance.

  Geoffrey Hodson

  Heart, Ideas, Law

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• The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.

  Adrian Frutiger

  White, Creating, Space

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• The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved.

  Mihail Marin

  Moving, Games, Looks

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• This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

  David Bohm

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.16, Routledge

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• Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mean, Compassion

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• Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

  Dada Vaswani

  Couple, Two, Soul

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• All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.

  Francois Mitterrand

  Eye, Peaceful, World

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• When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Essentials, Philosopher

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

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• For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Trying, Collaboration

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• Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Growing Up, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.265, Dial Press

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• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of our earliest days - Thomas Jefferson - when he said, not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. If the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of State, and twice President, could give it two hours, our children can give it ten or fifteen minutes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Exercise, Men

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• I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Eclectic Style, Bohemian, Aesthetic

  "Ten Questions: Lisa Marie Fernandez". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

  Quincy Jones

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

  Brian Greene

  Creativity, Men, Inspire

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• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Memories, Past

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.

  Salvador Bernal

  Prayer, Work, Reflection

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