Like water, be gentle and strong.

Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth,

And strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.

-Brenda Peterson

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water.

Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, nothing can withstand it, because they have no way to change it.

So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful.

Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

- Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher