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Rigid Quotes by Laozi
- Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and…
- The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.…
- The rigid tree will be felled.
- The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.
- Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes…
- When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft…
- Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
- Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
- 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,…
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- The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. — Eckhart Tolle
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- If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences… — Orson Pratt