Gentleness-quotes Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

“Be like water, which is fluid & soft & yielding, as in time, water will overcome rock which is rigid & hard. Therefor, what…

— Anonymous

“Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong.”

— Lao-tzu

“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around…

— Bruce Lee

“be like water, not like a rock”

— Mogamat Davids

“-it's life... In all its granite hardness.”

— Ken Bruen

“Even rocks erode under the smooth flow of water. The strongest of wills give in to the doubtful whispers of friends and hidden enemies.”

— M.B. Watson

“Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.”

— Anthony Doerr

“It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took…

— C. JoyBell C

“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else,…

— Wally Lamb

“The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice.”

— Lao Tzu