Top 281 Clinging Quotes & Sayings

If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

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.

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.

Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

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.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering

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.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

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.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

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.

Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

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.

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.

Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don`t cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first time that you are clinging to those desires; this has been the pattern of your whole life and you have not arrived anywhere. You go on in circles, you never come to any real growth. You remain childish, stupid. And you are born with the intelligence that can make you a buddha, but it is lost in unnecessary things.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

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.