Quotes about Harmony
When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
— Jack Kerouac
I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.
— Jack Kerouac
Let us sleep by rivers and purify our ears.
— Jack Kerouac
He no longer cared about anything (as before) but now he also cared about everything in principle; that is to say, it was all the same to him and he belonged to the world and there was nothing he could do about it.
— Jack Kerouac
I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys talking to farmers and their children.
— Jack Kerouac
There's the hum of the bee drone two blocks away the racket of it you'd think it was right over the roof, when the bee drone swirls nearer and nearer (gulp again) you retreat into the cabin and wait, maybe they got a message to come and see you all two thousand of em- but gettin used to the bee drone finally which seem to happen like a big party once a week- and so everything is eventually marvelous.
— Jack Kerouac
Lying on the top of the car with my face to the black sky was like lying in a closed trunk on a summer night. For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. The atmosphere and I became the same.
— Jack Kerouac
An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.
— Marianne Williamson
Two people happy with themselves can be exceptionally happy together.
— Albert Hammond, Jr.
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
No war or battle sound was heard the world around.
— John Milton