Quotes about Harmony

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them — which is no one's definition of tolerance.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.