Clinging Quotes - Page 10

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

Han Suyin

History, Way, Flow

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True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are detached from that which you encounter. At the same time, real nonattachment means not clinging to things or people. It means dropping the idea that if you don't have this or if you can't get that, your life will be a catastrophe.

Brad Warner

Life, Time, Real

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Sadly, I cant avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!

Terry Wogan

People, Age, Littles

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There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

Bob Herbert

Country, Violence, Lovers

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To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

Carlos Castaneda

Worry, Exhausted, Desperation

Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

Rajneesh

Ideas, Enlightenment, Bondage

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Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.

B. C. Forbes

Running, Country, Wall

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My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Children, Loss, People

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Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

Rumi

Men, Desire, Rope

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...Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this stout-hearted activity can the strength to support the physical and spiritual suffering of injury and death be nourished.

Josef Pieper

Spiritual, Strong, Support

Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself,
yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!

Lord Byron

Overcoming, Hateful, Instinct

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For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go - damned as it is - that exercises the heart.

Mark Nepo

Letting Go, Fall, Heart

Mark Nepo (2007). “The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life”, p.1, Harmony

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When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.

Cal Thomas

Letting Go, Real, Mean

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Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging. Enjoy the moment while it is there and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go. That is detachment.

Rajneesh

Let It Go, Looks, Indifference

Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.

Tilopa

Objects

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Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

William Feather

Achievement, Matter, Given

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The pastor should always be pure in thought ... no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains in the hearts of others ... for the hand that would cleanse from dirt must be clean, lest, being itself sordid with clinging mire, it soil whatever it touches all the more.

Pope Gregory I

Heart, Past, Hands

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The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide.... I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends.

Ti-Grace Atkinson

Suicide, Taken, Men

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I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

Muhammad Ali

Art, Moving, Sight

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

James Joyce

Soul, Lovers, Sin

James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.431, Courier Dover Publications

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A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.

Francis Galton

Strong, Intelligent, Men

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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

Adam Rapp

Death, Wall, Moving

Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.82, Candlewick Press

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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Johnny Cash

Dark, Battle, Life Is

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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

Thinking, People, Modern

Source: www.motherjones.com

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Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.

Frans de Waal

Mother, Fate, Men

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