16 quotes
“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.”
— Unknown
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken.”
— Lao Tzu
“The wise man changes his mind; the fool never will.”
“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
— Publilius Syrus
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
— Jodi Picoult
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
— Robert Jordan
“One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.”
— Epictetus
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.”
— Bruce Lee
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”
“Water is fluid soft and yielding but water will wear away rock which is rigid and cannot yield”
“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death the soft and yielding is the disciple of life”
— Laozi
“Keep your identity small.”
— Paul Graham
“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists”
— Japanese Proverb
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.”
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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