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Quotes About Clinging

Wat er op het eind van je overblijft zijn je bezittingen. Misschien is het me daarom nooit gelukt iets weg te gooien.
~ Nicole Krauss
Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.
~ Noah Levine
When we pay attention to life, it is easy to recognize that every action has a consequence: when we cling, we suffer; when we act selfishly or violently, we cause suffering for ourselves or others. This is the teaching of karma: positive actions have positive outcomes; negative actions have negative outcomes.
~ Noah Levine
Friend, don't allow the storms in your life to discourage you; rather, cling to the Lord and invite Him to fill you with His strength and hope. Hold tightly to Him and to the promises He's given you—no matter what the cost or how circumstances appear. Have faith to the end. Because you know that with God, you'll be able to endure anything that comes your way in life and emerge triumphant.
~ Charles F. Stanley
What are hands made for but this? For holding. for holding on.
~ James Patterson
El apego es una actitud que sobrestima las cualidades de un objeto o una persona y después se aferra a ella. En otras palabras, proyectamos sobre las personas y los objetos cualidades que no poseen, o exageramos las que poseen. El apego es una visión poco realista y por ello nos causa confusión.
~ Thubten Chodron
Ciertas ideas erróneas básicas alimentan nuestro apego. Estas son: (1) que las cosas, las personas y las relaciones no cambian; (2) que nos pueden proporcionar felicidad duradera; (3) que son puras; y (4) que poseen una esencia real y brillante.
~ Thubten Chodron
Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing - I just clung on.
~ Lily James
Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton)
~ Connie Brockway
He had hidden in a city filled with black glass. But its surfaces made poor reflections, clinging jealously to their color as if they would reveal terrible pictures if they were allowed to clear.
~ Conrad Williams
he said that in an case the past was little more than a dream and its force in the world was greatly exaggerated. for the world was made each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more
~ Cormac McCarthy
For the world was made new each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Can you never like things without clutching them as if you wanted to pull the heart out of them?
~ D.H. Lawrence
All human beings are vines. But especially the idealist. He is a vine, and he needs to clutch and climb. And he despises the man who is a mere potato, or turnip, or lump of wood.
~ D.H. Lawrence
However, the reader should not get the idea that here I am comparing zazen with the rest of our day-to-day activities. To do so would be to fall into the trap that many practitioners fall into of clinging to the idea that practicing zazen is most important; therefore, one should practice it twenty-four hours a day. The error here is in taking literally the idea of zazen being the most important activity in our life as opposed to all our other activities.
~ D?gen
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
We all choose the terms of the desperate bargains we make with the powers that may be, which baseless beliefs and decaying wisdoms we cling to, and which we discard as superstition or sorcery or the ravings of misguided zealots. Which is to say: it may not make sense all the way, but it makes sense enough.
~ Laurie Frankel
What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--or they cling to her--as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she can't get out and we can't get in to free her.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Attachment determines who we turn to for succor; these are the people we miss the most when they are absent. Caregiving gives us the urge to nurture the people for whom we feel most concern. When we are attached, we cling; when we are caregiving we provide. And sex is, well, sex.
~ Daniel Goleman
I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
~ William Faulkner
An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away.
~ Christine Hassler
In the midst of such uncertainty, I cling not to what I know, but what I feel.
~ Heidi Julavits
He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be They condition themselves to not embrace what they are Love is a clinging nausea I tried to disagree with him It was no use I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes.
~ Henry Rollins
The thought of the harm caused to her husband aroused in her a feeling like repulsion, and akin to what a drowning man might feel who has shaken off another man clinging to him. That man did drown. It was an evil action, of course, but it was the sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts.
~ Leo Tolstoy