- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clinging Quotes
On what we hold onto long after we should let go.
These clinging quotes describe the habit of holding onto blame, old wounds, or outdated ideas rather than moving forward. One speaker warns that forgiveness is hard to accept while still Aimlessly nursing grudges.
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- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Aimless
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drifting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Foolishly
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- Nov 07, 2020