“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
~ Lao Tzu
What is strong wins: that is the universal law. If only it were not so often precisely what is stupid and evil!
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn so that we see ourselves as we really are.
~ Arthur Golden
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. ~ Greg Bear
