For, he who yields is victorious!

[doodlemaier]

'As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone,
So to yield with life solves the insoluable:
To yield, I have learned, is to come back again,
But this unworded lesson,
This easy example,
Is lost upon men. '

~Lao Tzu
from the 'Tao Te Ching'