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• Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Being Happy, Spiritual

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• The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Perfect, Doctrine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

  "Animal life in Jewish tradition: attitudes and relationships". Book by Elijah Judah Schochet, p. 297, 1984.

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• The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Agendas, Tao, Planning

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• The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Sage, World

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• The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

  Rumi

  Past, Opposites, World

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• The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Men, Goal

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fragrance, Disharmony

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• The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Men, People

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• Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony.

  Zhuangzi

  Science, Unique, Law

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• Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Backgrounds, Discord, Attractiveness

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• Coexistence and personal peace are at the heart of global peace and harmony.

  Widad Akrawi

  Heart, Personal Peace, Global Peace

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• Our hearts resonate at the same frequency as the earth and the universe. Therefore, we are all valuable instruments in the orchestration of the world and its harmony.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Commitment, World

  "Truth Is Crying". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2008.

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• Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

  Bruce Lee

  Simplicity, Chaos, Discord

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• Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!

  Zhuangzi

  Running, Eye, Heart

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• In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

  John Ruskin

  Independent, Sky, House

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• How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.

  Victoria Moran

  Acceptance, Serenity, Life Is

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• Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  War, Catholic, Ends

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• We must all work together if we are all to live together in unity and harmony.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Unity, Working Together, Ifs

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Peace, Nature, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (2016). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Peace is never more than one thought away.

  Ben Jonson

  Peace

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• Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Healthy, Virtue

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• Heaven's harmony is universal love.

  William Cowper

  Religious, Heaven, Universal Love

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.31

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• Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Truth, Answers

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