Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the read more

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its read more

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.