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"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life." »Stephen
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"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 wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." »Chinese Proverb
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." »Doug Floyd
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"God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists." »Albert Einstein
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"Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody." »Henry David Thoreau
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads." »Albert Camus
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"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony." »Heraclitus
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"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." »Carl Sagan
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"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent." »John Dewey
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"Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony." »Seneca
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"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony." »Seneca
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"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." »Etty Hilsum
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"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration." »Charles Dudley Warner
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"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace." »Plato
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"Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign." »William Cowper
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"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord." »Sallust
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"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." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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"There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this." »Miyamoto Musashi
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"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." »Buddha
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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire." »Norman Douglas
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"We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed." »Dee W. Hock
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"It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_." »Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
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