Clinging Quotes
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 careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!
All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.
What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.
I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
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.
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.
The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.
I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.
She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.
I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.
Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment
Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.
Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.
Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.
Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake!
I'm so afraid to love you, But more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.
The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.
Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.
The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment
