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• Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

  William Wordsworth

  Sky, Way, Wheels

  William Wordsworth (2014). “The Excursion and The Recluse”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Goal, Focus

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• There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

  Ted Koppel

  Fashion, Peace, Trends

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• As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

  Vaclav Havel

  Self, Understanding, Deception

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• All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

  Heraclitus

  Opposites, Together, Sound

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• After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.’  I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony.  He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass.  I said, ‘In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.’

  John Cage

  Wall, Writing, Order

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• Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

  Nelson Mandela

  Voters, Way, Common

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Responsibility, World, Renewal

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• The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.

  Johannes Kepler

  Math, Order, World

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• Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Change, Work, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

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• Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Simplicity, May, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.16, Random House

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• Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Sweet, Distressing

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• We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

  John Bradford

  Christian, Never Settle, Holiness

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• The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Dream, Giving Up, Frustration

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.64, Anchor

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• Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

  Mary Collyer

  Passion, Soul, Virtue

  Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia to Charlotte: Being Letters from a Young Lady in the Country, to Her Friend in Town”, p.35

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• When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

  George William Russell

  Running, Men, Rivals

  "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

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• Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Wine, Cups

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Yoga, Body, Artistic

  Geeta S. Iyengar (1998). “Yoga: A Gem for Women”, p.71, Allied Publishers

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• Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Talking, Dharma

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• Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters

  "Forget poignancy, Arsenal prefer to deal in title significance" by Sachin Nakrani, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.

  Adyashanti

  Pain, Stress, Reality

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.33, Sounds True

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• Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

  Xunzi

  Music, Fundamentals, World

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• Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Kindness, Animal

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• The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices.

  Margot Adler

  Reality, Views, Practice

  Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.36, Penguin

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