Against the Flow

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
- Plutarch

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd

Almost no virtues in this life are absolute. While the quest for harmony is generally the path to a joyful life, consider those occasions when creating, or at least welcoming, disharmony is beneficial.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: My Own Person

Understand More, Fear Less

The Canvas Of Life

How To Not Care What Others Think 

Diversity

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Today, as I wish great happiness to our Hindu and Jain friends celebrating the first of 5 days of Diwali - (the Festival of Lights), I am again reminded of the diversity and wonderful spirit of so many people around our world.  Approximately 30% of the 80,000 subscribers to these Daily Inspirations live outside the United States. There are readers in 197 of the world's 203 countries, and Daily Inspiration readers represent a wide spectrum of belief systems. Yet there is something in these encouraging daily messages that unites us all.

Further reading: Spirit transcends all cultural differences

Perspective on Belief

We Are One

Diversity Quotes

Celebrate Life Quotes

Quotes about Differences

Quotes about Gentleness

Quotes about Perspective

Quotes about Harmony