Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
—Thomas Merton (1915–68) American Trappist Monk
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
—Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American Ecologist, Conservationist
What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
—Heraclitus (535BCE–475BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
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 (1869–1954) French Painter, Sculptor, Lithographer
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 (b.1946) Indian-born American Physician, Public Speaker, Writer
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 (1893–1952) Indian Hindu Mystic, Religious Leader, Philosopher, Teacher
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music where ever there is a harmony, order, or proportion: and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
—Thomas Browne (1605–82) English Author, Physician
Harmony of colouring is destructive of art—it is like the smile of a fool.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
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 (1839–1906) French Painter
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
—Heraclitus (535BCE–475BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
—Lope de Vega (1562–1635) Spanish Playwright, Poet
Life’s errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
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 (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
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 (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
—James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
—Anatole France (1844–1924) French Novelist
In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realise the infinite. It is death which is monistic, it has no life in it. But life is dualistic; it has an appearance as well as truth; and death is that appearance, that maya, which is an inseparable companion to life.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its consequence must be very injurious.
—George Washington (1732–99) American Head of State, Military Leader
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 (1918–86) American Artist, Graphic Artist, Educator
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
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 (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
—Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German Composer, Musician
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
—Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator
I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, 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 of life is one of them.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American Aviator, Author
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony
—Indian Proverb
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
—Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher
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 (1903–98) American Pediatrician, Author
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