“Change engenders resistance, and resistance creates saboteurs.”
Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 345.
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“You can’t create what you want if you are in resistance to what is.”
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Between the Bridge and the River (2006)
Variant: Change is the nature of God’s mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.
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Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
This quotation's origin is actually unknown, however it is not found in the Dao De Jing.
生命是一连串的自发的自然变化。逆流而动只会徒增伤悲。接受现实，万物自然循着规律发展。
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Variant: Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them — that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.