#harmony

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

And what is your safety? Never to disobey God, never to accuse Him, never to find fault with anything He has given, never unwillingly to do or suffer anything that is necessary.

Being and non-being produce each other. Difficult and easy complete each other. Long and short define each other.

Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms.

If powerful men and women could center themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythm.

Nameless simplicity brings absence of desire. The absence of desire leads to stillness. And the world reaches peace of its own accord.

In music, one does not make the end of a composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played the quickest.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure.

You are the ears through which the universe listens to its own harmony.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Those who follow the Tao are of one with the Tao. Those who follow virtue are of one with virtue.

I think it would be better for my lyre to be out of tune, and that the multitude should disagree with me, rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

A city where the citizens obey the laws is happy in peace and invincible in war.

Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be at one.

In all things moderation is best; for excess and deficiency alike ruin virtue.

Between friends there is no need of justice, but people who are just still need the bond of friendship.

Ideas become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relation with other parts of our experience.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.

As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so all paths lead to Thee.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike.

The law of love governs the world as the law of gravitation governs matter.

Peace is its own reward.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

The rhythm of the heart matches the music of the cosmos.

The highest prayer is a life lived in harmony with truth.

When there is love, do what you will, for love has no conflict.

True peace requires no weapons and no walls.

The quiet heart reflects the cosmic harmony.

Live in peace with yourself, and you live in peace with all.