Quotes about Harmony
The Master said, "The gentleman harmonizes [he] without being an echo. The petty man echoes [tong] and does not harmonize.
- Confucius
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
- Cormac McCarthy
Themselves among others, everything in its place. Justified in the world.
- Cormac McCarthy
Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
- Dale Carnegie
Plato said that "the greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately"!
- Dale Carnegie
In other words, don't argue with your customer or your spouse or your adversary. Don't tell them they are wrong, don't get them stirred up. Use a little diplomacy.
- Dale Carnegie
For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
- Dale Carnegie
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love
- Dale Carnegie
Begin by emphasizing—and keep on emphasizing—the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
- Dale Carnegie
Principle 9 - Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
- Dale Carnegie