Quotes About Clinging

What did they know of motherhood, the mad miracle of finding your interior drawn from you, clinging and bawling and giggling and learning everything there was to learn anew?

Not clinging to goals, even worthy goals, may be the way out of unhappiness.

All afflictions and deficiencies of life originate from the mind's attachment and clinging.

And we clung to each other in a shelter smelling of orange peel and piss on the promenade, and shrieked with glee, like the Bacchae who dismembered Orpheus.

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.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

THE OLD LAB was not used for anything much except detention. But there was still a faint smell of old science clinging to it, from generations of experiments which had gone wrong.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

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

But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That Might Be...

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Freedom is really not about possessing anything, but is actually being without; without hatred, without clinging, violence, greed, and so on. Losing everything you've managed to accumulate until what's always been there remains.

For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is everywhere.

Affection is the byproduct of love while attention is the evidence. Given too much of these could lead too clinging which most partners detest!!

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

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

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

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Desire is powerful. As the Buddhist teacher Mark Epstein writes, "Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully." 2