Harmlessness Quotes:

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

topic: Confused, Innocence, Harmlessness

Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Art, Hurt, Powerful, Peace And Harmony, Friendliness

An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.

- Gary Zukav

source: Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

topic: Mean, Humility, Humble, Inclusiveness, False Humility

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Buddhism, Solitude, Harmlessness

Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Befriending, May, Matter, Harmlessness

By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

- Agnes Repplier

source: Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

topic: Children, Reading, Parent, Children's Literature, Harmlessness