Yielding Quotes

127 quotes by 101 authors

Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local… — David Holmgren
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that… — Eric Chaisson
The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a… — Eduard Bernstein
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding. — Laozi
Yielding, like ice about to melt. — Laozi
Yielding is the manner of the Way. — Laozi
Yielding is the way of the Tao. — Laozi
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! — John Buchanan Robinson
The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is… — Roberto Assagioli
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… — Laozi
A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is… — Laozi
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life. — Laozi
Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one… — Jack Hyles
The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. — Ovid
Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising… — Laozi
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory… — George MacDonald
Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic.… — Amy Gerstler
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;… — Simone de Beauvoir

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