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Clinging Quotes

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It's life that matters, nothing but life鈥攖he process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

Sam Keen
“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”
Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

John C. Parkin
“Maybe it's because we innately know that everything is impermanent that we so desperately cling to it.
But cling we do.

We know that our youth vanishes that we and our loved one will die one day, that whatever we have accumulated can easily be taken away from us, that one day our skills might not be wanted, that a day may come when our love might not be reciprocated. But we go on clinging.

Everywhere we turn we are faced with impermanence. (..)
The more we cling - of course - the more pain we feel as things fade, disappear, die around us.
And sometimes the more we cling, the more these things happen. (..)

The key to being able to let go of all the stuff you're holding on to is knowing that you'll be okay if you don't have it.
And that's the truth.
You can survive with very little. And though the passing of people and things can be painful, you will survive.”
John C. Parkin, F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

Criss Jami
“In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.”
Criss Jami, Salom茅: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Pooja Agnihotri
“Fighting a change and clinging to the same old ways of doing things have never proved to be productive for anyone - you or your customers.”
Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

G.G. Renee Hill
“If she is to love life and freedom and be brave then she must learn to let go. To see beauty without clinging to it, to feel pain without holding it hostage, and to feel love without worry of losing it.”
G.G. Renee Hill, The Beautiful Disruption

Kate McGahan
“The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.”
Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal

Noah Levine
“Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions. We all create suffering for ourselves through our resistance, through our desire to have things different than the way they are - that is, our clinging or aversion.”
Noah Levine, Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

“The route of true happiness, the Buddha argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the emotional roller coaster and allow you to see your dramas and desires through a wider lens. To truly tame the 'monkey mind' and defeat our habitual tendency toward clinging, meditation was the prescription, and sitting and actively facing the 'voice in your head' mindfully for a few minutes a day might be the hardest thing you'll ever do. Accept that challenge and improve your life drastically. It's about mitigation, not alleviation. It's that simple. The only way out is through.”
Dan Harris, 10% Happier

Kazuo Ishiguro
“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no virtue at all in clinging as some do to tradition merely for its own sake.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“People who claim to love you swear that they can die for you, but they won鈥檛 let you live in peace.”
Shunya

Rollo May
“Where there is 'freedom from' without corresponding interrelationship, there is the anxiety of the defiant and isolated individual. Where there is dependence without freedom, there is the anxiety of the clinging person who cannot live outside a symbiosis.”
Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety

Kate McGahan
“Once you truly love, nothing else will do.
So now that you're gone I will choose nothing else.”
Kate McGahan

George Kinder
“As soon as we become aware of money, we develop beliefs about it-- beliefs we cling to, sometimes for the rest of our lives, often at the cost of our souls.”
George Kinder, TheSeven Stages of Money Maturity by Kinder, George ( Author ) ON Mar-03-2008, Paperback

Kate McGahan
“The less you cling to something, the less fear you have of losing that something or someone. The less fear you have, the more love you have. It is true that you love even more when you let go of the need for it. Love grows when grief goes. Make your love stronger than your fear. Strive to make your love greater than your need and let love be the most powerful force in your life. Then nothing can overcome you.”
Kate McGahan, Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

Osho
“Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what we don鈥檛 seek. If one does not seek anything, it means he does not lack it, he already has it.”
Osho, Krishna: The Man and his Philosophy

Pragya Tiwari
“Three-step rule can be followed in life :
Firstly, do not cling to something or somebody or a thought or idea. Secondly, do not run away or escape from yourself. Third and most important is to watch 鈥榦neself鈥� as an outsider without taking sides, judging and forcing opinions.”
Pragya Tiwari, Outlet from Loneliness

Charlotte Eriksson
“I was clinging to a person so hard that I did not know how to breathe when he let go
and I call that an addiction.”
Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

Daria Snadowsky
“A month ago it would have been my dream just to be in his bedroom watching a movie, but now it鈥檚 torture because I want so much more. It鈥檚 like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don鈥檛 like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I come across as desperate for attention or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly natural human behaviors, after all. Ugh!”
Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend

George Kinder
“Every money message we hold on to contains a fatal flaw; it impressions us in an incomplete world.”
George Kinder, TheSeven Stages of Money Maturity by Kinder, George ( Author ) ON Mar-03-2008, Paperback

Henry James
“I cling to some saving romance in things.”
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

“The one for whom
enemy and friend,
honour and infamy,
cold and heat,
pleasure and pain,
are the same,
who has moved away
from clinging,

the one whom
curse and praise are equal,
who keeps silent,
content with whatsoever
comes his way,
without home, with steady mind,
full of devotion,
that one is dear to me.”
Laurie L. Patton, The Bhagavad Gita

Alan W. Watts
“In Zen Buddhist texts they say, 鈥淵ou cannot nail a peg into the sky.鈥� And so, to be a man of the sky, a man of the void, is also called 鈥榓 man not depending on anything鈥�. And when you鈥檙e not hung on anything you are the only thing that isn鈥檛 hung on anything 鈥� which is the universe. Which doesn鈥檛 hang, you see. Where would it hang? It has no place to fall on, even though it may be dropping; there will never be the crash of it landing on a concrete floor somewhere. But the reason for that is that it won鈥檛 crash below because it doesn鈥檛 hang above. And so there is a poem, in Chinese, which speaks of such a person as having above, not a tile to cover the head; below, not an inch of ground on which to stand.”
Alan W. Watts, Out of Your Mind

“Even if we were very good at making everything outside of ourselves be just the way we ourselves want it to be (a ludicrous thought, you must admit), we could fundamentally never get everything perfect: because our desires are always changing, because they are often conflicting, and because the changes of the environment can never keep up with the pace of the wanting mind. The satisfaction of desire as a strategy for happiness will always be a doomed enterprise.”
Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism

Sharon Salzberg
“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.”
Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“Clinging is born
to someone
who dwells on
the spheres of the senses;
desire is born
from clinging;
and anger is born
from desire.”
Laurie L. Patton, The Bhagavad Gita

“Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.”
Oscar Auliq-Ice

Mike Dooley
“Don鈥檛 confuse staying the course with clinging to a cursed 鈥榟ow鈥�.”
Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend

Etty Hillesum
“I for one have ceased to cling to life and to things; I have the feeling that everything is accidental, that one must break one's inner bonds with people and stand aside for all else.”
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork

Stephanie Garber
“They had been dreams borrowed from stories, dreams she had clung to because she had yet to imagine her own dreams.”
Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

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