We Cling Quotes

61 quotes by 58 authors

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. — Johannes Brahms
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can… — Gabriel Byrne
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they… — Zhuangzi
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our… — Henri Nouwen
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in… — Dorothy Day
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We… — Anthony de Mello
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both?… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling… — Rajneesh
We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master. — Rachel Held Evans
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was… — Philip Pullman
O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing… — Rabindranath Tagore
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common… — Eric Hoffer
We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth. — Harold Leavitt
In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right… — Nhat Hanh
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling… — Noah Levine
When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to… — M. Scott Peck
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
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears. — Jack Kornfield

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