Quotes about Harmony

Always make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

And we can't all just get along. Rather, we have to become the kinds of persons who can get along. As a major part of this, our epidermal responses have to be changed in such a way that the fire and the fight doesn't start almost immediately when we are "rubbed the wrong way." Solitude and silence give us a place to begin the necessary changes, though they are not a place to stop.

Reign is no doubt wording that is a little too grand for the contemporary mind, though what it refers to is what everyone actually pursues in life. We have been trained to think of "reigning" as exclusionary of others. But in the heart of the divine conspiracy, it just means to be free and powerful in the creation and governance of what is good. In the life of prayer we are training for, we reign in harmonious union with the infinite power of God.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

"Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."

Keeping together is progress; working together is success.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.