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Quotes about Rhythm

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens"
— Ecclesiastes 3:1
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
— Albert Einstein
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
— Thomas Merton
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
— Thomas Merton
Above all, enter into the Church's liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into your body and soul.
— Thomas Merton
Monastic people have long known--and I've experienced it in a small way myself--that the communal reciting, chanting, and singing of the psalms brings a unique sense of wholeness and order to their day, and even establishes the rhythm of their lives.
— Kathleen Norris
Song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background.
— Chris Fabry
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
— Anonymous
Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
— Jack Kerouac
Shearing began to play his chords; they rolled out of the piano in great rich showers, you'd think the man wouldn't have time to line them up. They rolled and rolled like the sea.
— Jack Kerouac
Doctors explain that the cardiac cells are "auto-rhythmic" cells. They actually vibrate and beat together instinctively at the same tempo—before they ever unite with each other and function as the heart!
— Bishop TD Jakes
He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him.
— Ayn Rand