Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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?
Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.
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.
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.
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.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.