The winds may fell the massive oak, but bamboo, bent even to the ground, will spring upright after the passage of the storm.
More Japanese Proverbs:
No branch is better than its trunk.Japanese
Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.
Japanese
No one was ever hurt by laughter.
Japanese
We can laugh happily with our children, but not with money.
Japanese
The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.
Japanese
The boaster and the proud person are fools.
Japanese