Clinging Quotes

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.

Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.

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

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.

This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

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

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.

Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.