Grabbing – Quotes

I have never understood,

I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat … yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance. Erma Bombeck

Life for most people

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don’t work out the way you planned. Frederick Lenz

When a person’s primary

When a person’s primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of “pushing” (trying to push away from discomforts) and “grabbing” (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual “pushing and grabbing” approach to … Read more

I love grabbing my

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film. Donald Sutherland

I once saw Arnold

I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice? David Wong

You win over people

You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don’t grab the bone from him and tell him it’s not good for him. He’ll growl at you. It’s the only thing he has. But you throw a … Read more

Not everyone knows how

Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in our solitude, so that we can relate to each other without grabbing on to each other. We can be interdependent but not dependent. Loneliness is rejected despondency. Solitude is shared … Read more