There's no point in clinging to illusions.

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

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

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

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

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

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

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

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

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

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

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

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

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

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

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

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 That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

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

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

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

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

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

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.

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Holding on to things from the past is the same as clinging to an image of yourself in the past. If you're the least bit interested in changing anything about yourself, I suggest you be brave and start letting things go.

As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

The state of Michigan going to Trump was an amazing thing. Of course the fake news media was shocked; they never considered that white working class residents of Michigan may not like being called evil racists clinging to guns and Bibles.

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.

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