Cracks Quote by Laozi

“I don’t know for sure, but I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A…

— Rachel Held Evans

I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and…

— Rachel Held Evans

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

— Alice Walker

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

— Charles R. Swindoll

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

— Martha Gellhorn

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

— Gene Simmons

When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are…

— Laozi

“Soon the trees affected not only her mood but her understanding. Each year a trunk put on a new ring of growth, and within…

— Shannon Hale

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

— Bruce Lee

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

— Anonymous

“The tree is bent when it is young”

— Orhan Pamuk

“Though storms blow and the earth shake Limber trees may bend, but the stiff will break.” Chief Bending Tree (Mystical Mountain Magic)”

— Guy Brooke