Harmony Day is celebrated every year on March 21st in Australia and this year it is going to be celebrated on 21st March 2019, Thursday. Harmony Day began in the year 1999, happening together with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Happy Harmony Day 2019
Every single year, it is celebrated by the people coming together and taking part in local activities. The on-going message of Harmony Day is ‘Everyone Belongs’. The day is all about municipal contribution, inclusiveness, celebrating multiplicity, admiration and belonging.
Various social groups themselves choose how they would like to come together to mark the event such as a number of people have morning teas, others arrange a fair and some rejoice by dressing in national getups.
Harmony Day Celebration on 21st March
Since the year 1999, a wide diversity of groups comprising sports associations, community groups, local government, churches, schools and businesses have presented more than 55,000 Harmony Day occasions. And also the people focuses on orange colour which is the colour chosen to represent Harmony Day.
Quotes on Harmony Day 2019
“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
– Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
– Alan Wilson Watts
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“We don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.”
– Steve Goodier
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
George Washington
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.”
– Paulo Coelho
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.”
– Sallust
“The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.”
– Cyril Connolly
Harmony Day is celebrated annually since 1999 on 21 March in order to coincide with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The day is organised by the Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
