A Quote by Laozi

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Laozi

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Done Left Nothing Undone

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Mark Twain

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

Gautama Buddha

In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Martha Beck

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

Laozi

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

Laozi

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.

Laozi

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

Baltasar Gracian

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

Laozi

Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

Viktor E. Frankl

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

Benjamin Whichcote

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy. Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy.

John Lennon

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

Gautama Buddha

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.