"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music."

Shaftesbury, Lord | Truth | 4 bookmarks

"Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent."

Wordsworth, William | Birds | 1 bookmarks

"The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres."

I Ching | Change | 2 bookmarks

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Bonaparte, Napoleon | Power | 3 bookmarks

"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life."

Pilgrim, Peace | Life and Living | 2 bookmarks

"Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work."

Carlyle, Thomas | Labor | 1 bookmarks

"To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody."

Thoreau, Henry David | Friends and Friendship | 1 bookmarks

"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."

Jones, Quincy | Cooperation | 1 bookmarks

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

Wordsworth, William | Contemplation | 1 bookmarks

"With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things."

Wordsworth, William | Power | 1 bookmarks