Quotes About Flexibility

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

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

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

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

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

The rigid tree will be felled.

A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .

Travel light and trust in serendipity.