Stop Clinging Quotes

#1. The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

Roberto Bolano

#2. Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

Pema Chodron

#3. But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Wanda Sykes

#4. 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

#5. For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

Julio Cortazar

#6. Fine. If you want to stay in that chair and feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life, who am I to stop you? But if the solitude you're so desperately clinging to ever starts to get too dull and lonely, just let me know.

Sorcha MacMurrough

#7. Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

Lisa Wingate

#8. Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

Bodhidharma

#9. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence.

Bell Hooks

#10. I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.

David Blunkett

#11. IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can't imagine the places you'll end up. But most people don't do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy.

Lisa Unger

#12. A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

John McCarthy

#13. Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather.
Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your heavenly goal - the evolution of your soul - and you will find peace even while on earth.

Neale Donald Walsch

#14. I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

K.A. Applegate

#15. Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different

Marty Rubin

#16. You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

Bill Parcells

#17. You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

Ajahn Chah

#19. We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.

Daniel Boulud

#21. The Lord may very well have removed His blessing from America the moment America stopped blessing us.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#22. The list of things to be grateful for is so long, if I really give thanks I don't have time to complain about anything.

Dan Reiland

#23. You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.

Steve Carell