The hard and stiff will be broken. _x000D_ The soft and supple will prevail.
Interpretation
Flexibility and adaptability lead to success, while rigidity and stubbornness can lead to failure.
This quote by Laozi suggests that those who are hard and inflexible are more likely to face difficulties and ultimately fail, while those who are soft and adaptable have the ability to endure and thrive. It highlights the importance of being open to change and showing resilience in the face of challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
If you understand others you are smart._x000D_ If you understand yourself you are illuminated._x000D_ If you overcome others you are powerful._x000D_ If you overcome yourself you have strength._x000D_ If you know how to be satisfied you are rich._x000D_ If you can act with vigor, you have a will._x000D_ If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting._x000D_ If you die without loss, you are eternal.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.
You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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