"The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions……" — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever… — Thomas Carlyle
• Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How… — Arthur Symons
• No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know… — Lucretius
• Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now… — Daniel J. Siegel
• The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it. — Honore de Balzac
• The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's… — Sri Aurobindo
• You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for… — Khalil Gibran
• One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in… — Jeff Cooper
• Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris… — Anne Monroe
• In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that… — Jacquetta Hawkes
• It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand… — Lord Byron
• This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or… — Stephen Batchelor

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