Don't Cling Quotes

#1. In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.

Alan W. Watts

#2. Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

Henepola Gunaratana

#3. Don't cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions

Anne Rice

#4. I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

Hans Kung

#5. Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Sonny Bono

#6. Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Mitch Albom

#7. The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear.

Sengcan

#8. Never treat any person as a means. Treat everybody as an end in himself, in herself - then you don't cling, then you are not attached. You love, but your love gives freedom - and, when you give freedom to the other, you are free. Only in freedom does your soul grow. You will feel very, very happy.

Osho

#9. Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.

Rajneesh

#10. Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.

Unknown

#11. Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite transient objects.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. You're going to live longer than you expected, and bad things are bound to happen. Let them bounce off you. Grieve, cry, fight whatever you need to survive, but don't cling to it. Move on.

Annie Nicholas

#13. To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'

Ajahn Chah

#14. Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can't be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.

Oli Anderson

#15. I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

Larry Kramer

#16. I have more respect for people who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held thirty years ago. The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.

Michael Crichton

#17. To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

John Hurt

#18. Cowards ... cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

Simon Sinek

#19. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Bodhidharma

#20. People don't change. The world carries on spinning inexorably around but people don't spin with it. They dig their heels into the shifting sand and cling on for dear life.

Tamar Cohen

#21. What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

Craig Groeschel

#22. We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

Johannes Brahms

#23. Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

Tim Tharp

#24. When I get tired, and I don't think I have another ounce of energy left, I just cling to God's hem.
~Mama Sato

Kiyo Sato

#25. I was only going to say that abused people cling to their abusers, don't they? They've been brainwashed to believe there's no alternative. I was the bloody alternative, standing there, right in front of her!

Robert Galbraith

#26. As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

Alan Ball

#27. Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Dirk Benedict

#28. So I sit, and stare, and wait, and cling to the little bit of hope I wake up with every day, but I don't stop doing it, I don't just give up, because maybe - goddamn it, maybe - I'll find my wings again and get to soar.

J.M. Darhower

#29. Don't drop me." I cling tighter and press myself up against him a little more. "Never." There's so much confidence and assurance in his voice. "I have you. You're as secure as can be.

Susan Ee

#30. You don't fade from within my mind; it's a flaw
That I dwell on each moment, cling to you
Like smoke escaping my fingers while the candles burn them raw

Sreesha Divakaran

#31. Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

Asa Don Brown

#32. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

Sarah Palin

#33. Yeah, I will. Why do you
care so much all of a sudden?"
Cade shrugged. "I don't have anything else to do. And like I said ... you and Lark and this ranch
are all I have. Makes you cling to things tighter when you realize how easy it is to lose them.

Maisey Yates

#34. It's so easy to lie. What's even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don't have to face the truth, don't have to feel alone.

Karen Marie Moning

#35. Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.

Isha Judd

#36. I don't read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite's rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.

Roger Angell

#37. Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

Joanne Harris

#38. But people need to cling to something," Oshima says. "They have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realize it. It's like Goethe said: Everything's a metaphor.

Haruki Murakami

#39. My painful memories sift through me like sand through stretched fingers. Only small pieces cling and stay around for me to keep, the rest just disappear. I know not where and I don't

Willow Madison

#40. When we are sad ... it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

Donna Tartt

#41. We're strong together, Hayley. Stronger then we are apart."
"I don't feel strong," I whisper.
"Then I'll be strong enough for both of us."
My fingers dig into his shoulders and I cling to him.
"I love you.

Katie McGarry

#42. If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

Bill Maher

#43. But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room to tuck new things square inside; they just cling to the outside for a while and drop off.

Orson Scott Card

#44. I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

Rick Santorum

#45. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!

George Carlin

#46. Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don't have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up - up, up. And ... down we go. I knew that would happen. See, I'm on my feet again. See, I'm starting to roll it up again. Don't try to talk me out of it. Nothing, nothing could tear me away from this rock.

Susan Sontag

#47. Obviously there are exceptions, but I suspect that for many people the main reason they cling to religion is not that it is consoling, but that they have been let down by our educational system and don't realize that non-belief is even an option.

Anonymous

#48. Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

Kevin Griffin

#49. We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

Malcolm Gladwell

#50. I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift ... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.

Jess Walter

#51. I don't blame God. I cling to Him.

Terri Reed

#52. Responding with eyes filled with introspection and a soft, slow voice, Cayla confessed, "I don't. I don't have all the answers. But I cling desperately to the Hand of the One who does. Because sometimes that's just the best you can do.""
"Come What May"-Cayla to Abbie-

Laura A. Diaz

#53. People need to cling to something," Oshima says. "They have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realise it.

Haruki Murakami

#54. What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

Buddhadasa