Alice Walker Quotes

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

Justice is the soul of the universe.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.