Top 100 You Cling Quotes
#1. The rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#2. If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.
Myles Munroe
#3. It begins to go so fast," Fitch said. "What?" "Time. You cling to every second. Savor everything. Wish you'd lived all your days like this. Excuse me.
Blake Crouch
#4. When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.
Kate McGahan
#5. You can only lose what you cling to
Budha
#6. In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
Elias Canetti
#7. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
Leo Buscaglia
#9. You only lose what you cling to.
Grace Lin
#10. We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#11. If you cling too much to logic you will never be able to be part of the living process that this existence is. Life is more than logic: life is paradox, life is mystery.
Osho
#12. When the storms of life rise and threaten to swamp you, can you quiet the waves? Can you leave that cherished boat behind and walk on the troubled waters, or do you cling to your boat like the rest of the world, certain you will drown if you step on the deep dark seas that surround you?
Ted Dekker
#13. Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.
Wilhelm Reich
#14. You cling on to the truth; no one in the world can shake your faith and devotion.
Dada Bhagwan
#15. Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.
Evagrius Ponticus
#16. Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.
Osho
#17. If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is?
Robertson Davies
#18. When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
Anthony De Mello
#19. Sometimes you cling to a mistake simply because it took so long to make.
Stephenie Meyer
#20. If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.
Anonymous
#21. To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.
Carlos Castaneda
#22. Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it.
Steve Merrick
#23. The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you ...
Stephen Sondheim
#24. You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
Mitch Albom
#25. Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.
Michael Mina
#26. You talk of being a believer, but you can't seem to trust anyone, not even God. You cling to your wealth as your security and carry the baggage of being unworthy, even though God loves you and has forgiven you. You should have listened a little closer to that sermon in church a couple of weeks back.
Colleen Coble
#27. Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
Yann Martel
#28. If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is 'it will probably be okay,' then run the other way because what you're contemplating is not a good choice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#29. If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner
Sun Tzu
#30. You can be a mama's boy or and a Daddy's boy,but you can't be both. So you cling to the you you think you might lose.
Mitch Albom
#31. My father, a closet astronomer, has tried to explain black holes to me, how they are so heavy they absorb everything, even light, right into their center. Moments like this are the same kind of vacuum; no matter what you cling to, you wind up being sucked in.
Jodi Picoult
#32. You will never find peace when the need you cling to is not the want you desire. But when does a want become a need ... when it is all you think about?
Shannon L. Alder
#33. Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'.
Kate Elliott
#34. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
Gautama Buddha
#35. I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.
Mason Cooley
#36. Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#37. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
Nick Clegg
#38. 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
#39. You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.
Leon Brown
#40. The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.
David Alan Harvey
#41. There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.
Mark Batterson
#42. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#43. Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.
Richie Sambora
#44. 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
#45. Gotcha!" he says, and smirks. He grabs me around my waist and pulls me up against him. "You are incorrigible, Miss Steele," he murmurs, staring down into my eyes as he weaves his fingers into my hair, holding me firmly in place. He kisses me, hard, and I cling on to his muscular arms for support.
E.L. James
#46. Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that , in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.
Dogen
#47. 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
#48. I cling to our love like saran wrap on leftovers. If you want to know when dinner will be ready, the answer is last night. We could make love, or we could simply reheat what we already had.
Jarod Kintz
#49. 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
#50. Sometimes belief is the reason for liberation; other times, our own conviction prevents our escape. It depends on whether or not you believe God is listening, if you can cling to hope in the gravest of times. Hope is a precious life force within us.
Christopher Hawke
#51. 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
#52. The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
Laozi
#53. You know how the bonds of family are, my lady ... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.
Cassandra Clare
#54. The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.
Caroline Kettlewell
#55. I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
H. G. Bissinger
#56. The counsel and care of others, while helpful and necessary, is not the ultimate solution. Jesus is the one who gives strength and contentment in the midst of suffering. Cling tightly to Jesus, who already has you in his invincible grip.
Stephen Altrogge
#57. Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
Auliq Ice
#58. Cling tightly to hope, just as you have in the past, my dear. Evil can't rule forever. I truly believe that.
Lisa Schroeder
#59. If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.
Ralph Ellison
#60. You must find your dream ... but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.
Hermann Hesse
#61. 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
#62. Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Mason Cooley
#63. When life knocks you down, stop and look around for one thing that's good, because there is always something. Then cling to that good.
Vi Keeland
#64. Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#65. 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
#66. Faith isn't faith, unless it believes in the unseen. It doesn't take faith at all to cling to what you see. Faith in God trusts Him even when you can't see the very next step in front of you.
Cherie Hill
#67. It is the last real kiss of my life. I forever cling to that kiss. It was goodbye and I'm sorry and I love you so much.
Tarryn Fisher
#68. If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics
Hany Ghoraba
#69. You are FAR too fabulous to cling to someone or something that doesn't fit you, doesn't want you, or doesn't belong to you. While you're clinging to the WRONG thing, you're letting the RIGHT thing slip right through your fingers!
Mandy Hale
#70. 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
#71. The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
#72. The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
Vernon Howard
#73. In the darkest of nights cling to the assurance that God loves you, that He always has advice for you, a path that you can tread and a solution to your problem.
Basilea Schlink
#74. The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
Pema Chodron
#75. Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.
Thomas A Kempis
#76. People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves for the injustice of the present by smearing the future inside them with this shit. They're cowards deep down, and just. That's their nature.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#77. Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
Lemony Snicket
#78. Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.
Unknown
#79. Cling to your insecurity, in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#80. 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
#81. If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.
Gary Zukav
#82. Akil, humans have these wonderful little things we like to cling onto, called souls. The jury's still out as to whether demons have them, I sincerely doubt you do." ~ Muse.
Pippa DaCosta
#83. You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.
Yoko Ono
#84. Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings ... that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
Gautama Buddha
#85. Morrigan "What are guilt ferrets:"
Atticus "They're bastards. They cling to your neck and tickle and bite and generally make you miserable, which is a pretty good trick for a metaphor."
They were also impervious to logic, perhaps their most diabolical power.
Kevin Hearne
#86. It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.
Panda Bear
#87. Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
that in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core
as I cling to my memories of you ...
Xavier
#88. If you are concerned for the future of our civilization, there is no more cheering sight than a boy or girl who is lost in a book. It's an image I cling to, in moments of depression: the absorbed child, reading.
Susan Cooper
#89. Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.
David Alan Harvey
#90. 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
#91. A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you're always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you're always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.
Polly Berrien Berends
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.
Gerald Massey
#95. 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
#96. Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.
Gautama Buddha
#97. 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
#98. When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you.
Wayne W. Dyer
#99. Love is not a disease ... I cannot let them cut you out of me, nor her either. I will cling to my sickness, if it is a sickness. I will hold it close to me like the sun.
Rachel Hartman
#100. 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
