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210 Clinging quotes by 158 unique authors

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.… — Eric Hoffer
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those… — Dogen
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous… — H P Lovecraft
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate… — Bill Vaughan
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck… — Clarence Darrow
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. — T.D. Jakes
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. — Michel de Montaigne
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form… — Charles Morgan
Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. — Paul Ryan
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and… — Sharon Salzberg
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. — Alan Watts
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching,… — Walt Whitman
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even… — Khalil Gibran
Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look… — Antonin Artaud
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being… — Alan Watts
Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body… — Katie MacAlister
What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds. — Ram Dass
You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging… — Ram Dass
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol… — Eduardo Galeano
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have… — Rajneesh
Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She… — Laurell K. Hamilton

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