Bamboo is flexible, resident, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance.

Bamboo is a fast growing plant whose shoots symbolize life force and vigor.

Bamboo is, in China, suggestive of longevity, strength, and grace

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.

Concentration is the secret of strength in all the management of human affairs.

Concentration is difficult -- sometimes our only hope is to be distracted from distraction by distraction.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

Patience is just a less fancy name for hope.

Patience is the only thing you can lose without owning it.

Patience is the wisdom of those who have got the time.

Patience is relative. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.