Quotes about Harmony
Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.
— Barack Obama
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
— Francis de Sales
You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.
— Ed Stetzer
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
— Henry David Thoreau
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Everyone is born equal; we all come into the world helpless and innocent. We all breathe the same air, and many of us believe in the same God. And yet … and yet, to many people this one small difference is a huge one! It's huge because many people have never realized what the difference is, for if they had they would have discovered long ago that there's actually no difference at all!
— Anne Frank
Whoever is happy will make others happy to.
— Anne Frank
Hope for an end to war, hope for peace.
— Anne Frank
It's better to be kind than to be right.
— Anne Lamott
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet.
— Anne Lamott
Whether it's Mt. Sinai, a pasture, a library, the creek down the road, a liveness, or whatever you want to call it, the song is above us, around us, within us. We transcend the incessant and wearying yammer of bullshit. Transcendence means you go from judgement, separation from life in yourself, to feeling at one-ish with the universe. We hook into something bigger than we are - truer than the self-serving stories we make up about life and ourselves.
— Anne Lamott