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210 Clinging quotes by 158 unique authors

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece… — Gautama Buddha
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen… — William Faulkner
Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than… — Friedrich Engels
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. — Christopher Lasch
See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep… — Martin Luther
I see you over there, just clinging to the wall. Because they told you like ivy you were bound to crawl. But you kept looking… — John Hiatt
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be. — Luce Irigaray
When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we… — Pema Chodron
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the… — William McKinley
The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as… — Ti-Grace Atkinson
Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of… — Bill W.
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world. — Laozi
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world. — Laozi
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy. — Ajahn Chah
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any… — James Harvey Robinson
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did… — Tahereh Mafi
I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement.… — Rajneesh
Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who… — Rajneesh
'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole… — Rajneesh
The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES! — Rajneesh
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under… — Henry David Thoreau
See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go… — Guy Finley

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