Clinging Quotes - Page 9

• We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Unique, Tolerance, Individual

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• Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. "Finnick!" And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible. A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for their certainty. No one seeing them could doubt their love.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Wall, Eye

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Dark, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Rain, Clouds, Light

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• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Buddhist, Acceptance, Mindfulness

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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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• [President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to power, to status, to money, to position, to each other, you're going to ruffle a lot of feathers.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Roots, President, Ruffles

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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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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• 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 two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body energy, their whole being, loses all identity; they are no more themselves - they have fallen into abyss. But this can happen only for a moment: again they regain, again they start clinging. That's why people become afraid in love.'

  Rajneesh

  Love, Self, Two

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• As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it's about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way.

  Shakti Gawain

  Old Habits, Long, Trying

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.162, Mango Media Inc.

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• Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Way, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.150, Stanford University Press

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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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• 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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• Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

  John Ortberg

  Waiting, Sometimes, Painful

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

  Helen Rowland

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

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• Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Southern, Literature, Slavery

  George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

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• 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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