We Cling Quotes
61 quotes by 58 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
— Rachel Held Evans
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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
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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
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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
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We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.
— Harold Leavitt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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