Quotes About Undoing

Chaos doesn't do, it undoes.

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Music had been his undoing, he told the boy in ironic self-deprecation. His bane and his salvation. It had gotten him through tough times that would have otherwise been unbearable and it had made everything else he had gone at twice as hard.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394).

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

That which is made with words, with words can be unmade.

Someone once asked Swami Satchidananda, a spiritual teacher, "What are you, a Hindu?" "No," he replied, "I'm an Undo. I'm trying to teach people how they can undo the patterns that cause damage to their minds and bodies so they can begin to heal.

You want to feel sorry for him, but he was his own undoing.

She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back as possible. We are secondary at this point.' 'That will be her undoing,' Artemis gasped, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. 'Artemis Fowl will never be secondary.' 'I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?' said Holly.

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he'd be my undoing…" Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

The spiritual path is not a learning curve. It is a refresher course. You were born knowing. Then you were educated out of knowing. Now you need to be reeducated into remembering. The journey of enlightenment is not one of doing. It is of undoing. You must undo the debilitating illusions that have been laid over your majestic self. The goal of living is to become what you already are.

I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.