Clinging Quotes
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Remind yourself that you are truly worth more than clinging to somebody who does not care in the same manner you do.
— Ajay Kumar
(Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?
— Nancy Woodruff
She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield.
— Sabaa Tahir
She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by her usual method - imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive.
— Shirley Jackson
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
— Michel De Montaigne
But when you continue clinging to your feelings of guilt, this God-given mission becomes nothing more than self-imposed penance.
— Karen Witemeyer
One thinks the worst even while clinging to hopes for the best.
— Robert Dykstra
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
— Gloria Steinem
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
— Mary Shelley
Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.
— Gil Fronsdal
clinging to modesty in the age of the Others is like sacrificing a goat to make it rain.
— Rick Yancey
If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
And one abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world.
— Joseph Goldstein
When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.
— Jan Chozen Bays
To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. At
— J.K. Rowling
Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
— Pema Chodron
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
— Gautama Buddha
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?
— Lindsey Davis
She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.
— Cassandra Clare
No man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
— William Faulkner
Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.
— Margaret Atwood
She had the air of someone clinging to a wall of soap.
— Dennis Lehane
There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.
— J. Anderson Coats
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa
— Lama Surya Das
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
— Alice Miller
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
— T.D. Jakes
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
— Luce Irigaray
They are less than the mud. You do not get angry at the mud for clinging to your shoe. You wipe it off and never look at it again.
— Kiersten White
Fear doesn't frighten me as much as it used to. I know it's from clinging, and I know it will pass [p. 29].
— Sylvia Boorstein
The awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them.
— Tim Kreider
No amount of speed could break me of this darkness... The sorrow is ever clinging to me.
— D.R. Hedge
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
— William Feather
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties ... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
— John Ortberg
My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.
— Mason Cooley
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
— Henry David Thoreau
The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
— Johnny Cash
The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.
— Ben Aaronovitch
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
— Bill Lawrence
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
— Matthew Arnold
Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.
— Oscar Arias
I was clinging to this tree so passionately that I might very well have committed an act of photosynthesis with it.
— Dave Barry
Safety, stabilityit's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim. — Rainbow Rowell
I do not dare to disturb it with the truth, because I am too busy clinging to it for support.
— Veronica Roth
We aren't so different. Outcasts and wanderers all - souls clinging to the margins of the world.
— Ransom Riggs
I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.
— Freya North
The appearances of the world are not the problem,it's clinging to them that causes suffering — Tilopa
Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
— Rajneesh
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
— Edward St. Aubyn
The sky was a fresh-swept blue, with only a trace of white cloud clinging to the dome of heaven like a thin streak of test paint
— Haruki Murakami
Here, rancid air hangs heavily in a void, its texture thick, liquid, clinging, in a night full of the hot smells of decay.
— Robert Dunbar
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
— Christopher Lasch
I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell.
— Rebekah Armusik
Sunlight streamed through the room, clinging to him like it wanted him as much as she did.
— Cindi Madsen
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
Whoever is not tied to possessions, clinging neither to body nor mind, is never in bondage.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
— Bodhidharma
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
— William Ames
pain clinging to me - like a good friend,
— Megan Marshall
I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.
— Haruki Murakami
Dear, he was the bad dress of men - a bit too short and clinging to you in all the wrong places.
— Rebecca Flowers
That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.
— Amanda Tero
We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.
— William B. Irvine
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
— Geoffrey Canada
