Clinging Quotes

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

  Bela Lugosi

  Life, Thinking, People

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• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Opposites, Belief

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

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Faith, Heart, Shrines

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Stubborn, Opinion

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• You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And 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

  Jobs, Frustration, Gun

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• When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we may discover a space, a break in the chatter, a glimpse of open sky. This is our birthright—the wisdom with which we were born, the vast unfolding display of primordial richness, primordial openness, primordial wisdom itself. When one thought has ended and another has not yet begun, we can rest in that space.

  Pema Chodron

  Memories, Sky, Space

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Dirt, Sides

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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

  Bodhidharma

  Attachment, Transformation, Birth

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan

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• I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Believe

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken

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• Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Attachment

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• The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Spiritual

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• 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

  Giving, May, Faithfulness

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Unique, Past

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

  Jeanne Calment

  Parent, Excuse, Thread

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Letting Go, Hands, Want

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• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Mom, Mother

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

  John Templeton

  Believe, Optimistic, Becoming

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Family, Patterns

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Boredom, Currents

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, World, Want

  "Awards Season’s Female Troubles" by Justin Chang, variety.com. January 2, 2015.

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• You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

  Mira Grant

  Sleep, Silence, Exotic

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• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Acceptance, Mindfulness, Complicated

  Sylvia Boorstein (1995). “It's easier than you think: the Buddhist way to happiness”, HarperOne

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• 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

  Powerful, Frustration, Gun

  "Obama 'sorry' for God and guns jibe" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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