He who clings to life shall lose it--but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

~ Anonymous Quotes

Famous Quotes on: Sin, Cling, Life

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Learn to detach...Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate fully. That's how you are able to leave it... Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that love entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

~ Mitch Albom Quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Love, Experience, Learn, Emotion, The Moment, Cling, Pain, The Way, Busy, Motion, Win

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When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

~ Anthony de Mello Quotes

Motivational Quotes on: Live, Cling, Destroy, Life, Anthony De Mello

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…As the great Confucius said, “The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change.” Flow. But we keep looking back, don’t we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don’t hold on to a few bars of the music. Don’t hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass...

~ Anthony de Mello Quotes

Self-Development Quotes on: Change, Happiness, Confucius, Flow, Past, Cling, Great, Lies, Music, Anthony De Mello, Joy, Symphony

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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 Quotes

Famous Quotes on: Fear, Love, Happiness, Cling, Perfect, Expect, Anthony De Mello, Joy, Demand, Happy

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