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Quotes About Cling

Know how to 'cling' to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are called to serve.
~ Basil Hume
Rip. "Velcro.
~ Larry Niven
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
~ Alan Lightman
A beautiful country is a dream-like an illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.
~ Henri Nouwen
Because memory cannot be adequately utilized to retain an image, the borderline forgets what the object of his concern looks like, sounds like, feels like. To escape the panicky sensation of abandonment and loneliness, the borderline tries to cling desperately—calling, writing, using any means to maintain contact.
~ Jerold J. Kreisman
We must believe this and cling to this in the face of adversity and tragedy, if we are to glorify God by trusting Him.
~ Jerry Bridges
Ce qu'on laisse approcher, on veut le retenir. Et on ne peut rien retenir.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Jesus tells her not to cling to him—"Do not hold on to me." One cannot hold on to the dead; a new kind of relationship has to be established. Much of what Jesus does in the
~ Robert J. Schreiter
What a waste! What a horrible, senseless waste. When happiness was so wonderful, how could anyone cling to a love that made them unhappy?
~ Alexandra Ripley
To live and know it is only for a moment … that is to know 'the soul' … and it increases closeness and despair and happiness … My life with you increases all things because I value it so much.
~ Anne Sexton
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
~ Barack Obama
Uncle Etienne says heaven is like a blanket babies cling to.
~ Anthony Doerr
Third, and probably most importantly, anxiety affects children's behavior. When children are anxious, they may freeze, fidget, pace, cry, cling, and shake. In addition, anxiety usually involves some type of avoidance.
~ Ronald M. Rapee
I clung to the movies with a fervour born of despair.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I'm afraid, she thought. When there's someone to cling to, I'll cling. And I'll grow weak again, like roses unable to stand free, once trained to a trellis.
~ Eileen Goudge
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness how I cling to thee?
~ Anne Bronte
Don't cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions
~ Anne Rice
When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.
~ Sharon Salzberg
A man may build as he chooses upon his foundations but he cannot change them or forget them, and if at the last the superstructure of his own building falls about his ears he tends to rediscover them at the end as the only rock he has to cling to.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for what it is: just behavior.
~ Arthur Phillips
Leaving my father behind—with all of his baggage—was like giving up an old teddy bear. You know it's just an object, incapable of comforting you with its tattered fur and missing button eye, but it's something you cling to, even though you know it can't give anything back.
~ Samantha Hart
By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.
~ Guru Arjan Dev
One of the hardest behaviors to quench in anyone is a habit that is only occasionally rewarded. Want to keep a gambler at a slot machine longer? Make sure the payout schedule is random. Studies show that people who experience random rewards in response to a behavior cling to that behavior much more solidly than those who don't. This
~ John Medina