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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. — Morris West

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

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

His wife is washed up against him, clinging lifelessly to his arm like seaweed, with no pretense of listening to the priest's small talk. — Paul Murray

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse. — Laura Wasser

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

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

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

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. — Rajneesh

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

Even a guy like Jim Norton is clinging to his one empty tradition like anyone gives a care. My prayers for his death, as always, went unanswered. — Colin Quinn

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

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

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

Fear was a wicked monster clinging to every insecurity, whispering the harshest things.
And salvation could also be dirty. — V. Theia

They worried that I spent too much time alone, clinging to the notion that socializing was therapeutic. So was electroshock, I reminded them. — Ransom Riggs

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

Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust. — Ruth Graham

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

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

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

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

The awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them. — Tim Kreider

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

No amount of speed could break me of this darkness... The sorrow is ever clinging to me. — D.R. Hedge

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. — Katy Butler

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

We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves. — Anonymous

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

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

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

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality. — Rajneesh

Being with you is like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning how to swim — Rainbow Rowell

Cling to the One who clings to nothing;
And so clinging, cease to cling. — Thiruvalluvar

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

Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living. — Kobo Abe

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

Safety, stability
it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim. — Rainbow Rowell

If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat. — Sara Levine

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

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier. — Sharon Salzberg

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

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

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton) — Connie Brockway

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

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

The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom. — John Keegan

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

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

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

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks. — Kate Morton

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

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

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

Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night. — Brian K. Vaughan

The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, YEAH! Bring it on, Lake! — Rick Riordan

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