Clinging Quotes
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“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.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot

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

“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.”
― F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
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.”
― F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

“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.”
― Salom茅: In Every Inch In Every Mile
― Salom茅: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“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.”
― 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
― 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“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.”
― The Beautiful Disruption
― The Beautiful Disruption

“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.”
― Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
― Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal

“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.”
― Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
― 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.”
― 10% Happier
― 10% Happier

“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.”
― The Remains of the Day
― 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.”
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“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.”
― The Meaning of Anxiety
― The Meaning of Anxiety

“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.”
― TheSeven Stages of Money Maturity by Kinder, George ( Author ) ON Mar-03-2008, Paperback
― TheSeven Stages of Money Maturity by Kinder, George ( Author ) ON Mar-03-2008, Paperback

“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.”
― Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief
― Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

“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.”
― Krishna: The Man and his Philosophy
― Krishna: The Man and his Philosophy

“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.”
― Outlet from Loneliness
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.”
― Outlet from Loneliness

“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.”
― You're Doing Just Fine
and I call that an addiction.”
― You're Doing Just Fine

“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!”
― Anatomy of a Boyfriend
― Anatomy of a Boyfriend

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

“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.”
― Out of Your Mind
― 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.”
― Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
― Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism

“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.”
― Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
― 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.”
― The Bhagavad Gita
to someone
who dwells on
the spheres of the senses;
desire is born
from clinging;
and anger is born
from desire.”
― The Bhagavad Gita

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

“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.”
― An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
― An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork

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