Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness.… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose Once there… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Do you know what’s so great about clinging to hope? Hope is like a strong cord, a lifeline that stretches straight from… — Linda Evans Shepherd Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car.… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“You are FAR too fabulous to cling to someone or something that doesn’t fit you, doesn’t want you, or doesn’t belong to… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
I see you over there, just clinging to the wall. Because they told you like ivy you were bound to crawl. But… — John Hiatt Copy Share Image
“Someone's got to do these things,' he said sullenly. 'Or else fate would not ever get nose-thumbed and mankind would still be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“And because questions of beauty and happiness have become such difficult and convoluted propositions for me now, I suspect, I find myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight… — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to… — Charles Morgan Copy Share Image
Holding on to things from the past is the same as clinging to an image of yourself in the past. If you're… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
