Top 80 Quotes About Holding On And Letting Go
#1. I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.
Tite Kubo
#2. Letting go of someone who owns your heart is hard. Sometimes holding on to that person is even harder. I know I'm not the easiest person to love, but you are.
J. Sterling
#3. His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#4. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
Keith Urban
#5. holding
the evening
tremblingly close
to me
i weep
into
the sun
letting
the burden
of hope
lift off my chest
i realize
this is what
it means
to be free.
Sanober Khan
#6. I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering
Rajneesh
#7. Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.
Deepak Chopra
#8. Ivy gave the woman's hand a firm squeeze before letting it go. "What do you need?" she asked. "We're holding up." That, too, sounded like a rote reply, recited over and over again in hopes that it might somehow become the truth.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#10. I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what is in my hand.
Anna White
#11. Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
Socrates
#12. Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward.
Yvonne Pierre
#13. Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.
Toni Sorenson
#14. Feelings about money
saving and spending, holding back and letting go
start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
Fred Rogers
#15. I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.
Ken Wilber
#16. I'd have to be a complete idiot to leave this girl. An absolute moron. I buried my face in her hair, holding on to her for a long time, and then I kissed her cheek before letting go.
Julie Cross
#17. Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
Wan-Ling, Wong
#18. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
#19. I started really crying, letting out everything I'd been holding tightly inside. I was relieved, but mostly I was just sad. Sad that I'd been holding on to this when I didn't have to.
Morgan Matson
#20. I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.
Geraldine Page
#21. I don't know if I'm supposed to be holding on or letting go. I don't want to give up, but if there's nothing for me to hope for, then tell me.
Kiera Cass
#22. There were no other cars on the road. Just the sound of the wind, and the motor idling, and through his open window, the faint clicking sounds of Roger making another mix. I closed my eyes and let the wind whip my hair around my face, letting out a breath I hadn't known I'd been holding.
Morgan Matson
#23. To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.
Debbie Ford
#25. Much of the Christian religion has largely become "holding on" instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).
Richard Rohr
#26. Once I had her hand, I never wanted to let go of her.
Ottilie Weber
#27. Forgiveness is about letting go of the past and not holding on to it
Oprah Winfrey
#28. Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?"
"Because they're real."
"How do you know?"
"The one I was holding crapped on my hand.
Jim Butcher
#29. You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.
Neale Donald Walsch
#30. To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. Nobody can ... It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.
Rick Hamlin
#31. I walked home holding Tom's hand, not letting it go even as he tottered across a soccer field where there was nothing that could hurt him.
Aspen Matis
#32. Life is about holding on and letting go.
Keith Urban
#33. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
Margaret Atwood
#34. But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.
Julie Anne Peters
#35. holding grudges is like letting someone live rent free in your mind
J.L. Beck
#36. I put my arms around your waist and pull you in, holding you, letting you know I'm with you. I tell you that you can do this, that you're strong enough and brave enough. I tell you that you can do anything. So you nod and agree to jump.
Jessica Park
#37. The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.
Elizabeth Berg
#38. Quickly, Ian learned the danger of holding her. Once he allowed his arm around her, letting her go was nearly impossible.
Dana Marton
#39. You don't smile when you're holding on. You smile when you're letting go.
Taylor Adams
#40. This past year has been a lesson in letting go and holding on, and I don't know what to make of it. I guess I do know this: find a best friend, and hang on tight.
Emery Lord
#41. We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#42. It's ... .my God, it's amazing," I whispered as he took my left hand in his.
"Can I put it on your finger?" he asked, peering up at me. When I nodded, he pressed his lips together, sliding the silver band over my knuckle, holding it in place for a moment before letting go. "Now it's amazing.
Jamie McGuire
#43. You know ... Holding on isn't holding on. It's letting go.
Lindy Zart
#44. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.
Jenny Han
#45. It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.
Kate McGahan
#46. A leader knows it's not so hard to die for your people. It's hard to order your people to die for you. And leading with certainty in an uncertain future doesn't require sight. It requires vision. It requires holding on. And no matter what happens, never letting go.
Paul Jenkins
#47. Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship with Bushmills.
Charlie Jane Anders
#48. For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.
Evangeline Lilly
#49. Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.
Spencer Johnson
#50. Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always.
Robert Jordan
#51. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.
Mandy Hale
#52. Holding my hands out open wide. Not catching the drops or trying to hold them. I'm letting them leave their mark and then letting them go.
Ally Condie
#53. Giving up doesn't make you a quiter, a loser or a failure.
It makes you wise enough to stop holding on to what refuses to be held.
Hence i say, letting go hurts,
but holding on to what is no longer there
hurts even more.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#54. Letting go is impossible when you're holding a grudge. -Faydra D. Fields
Faydra D. Fields
#55. When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.
Stephenie Meyer
#56. You let go of my hand
to hold on to my heart
Distance grasps us tight
now that we are apart
Munia Khan
#57. What she was doing was, she was letting it be his idea. She was walking him along, holding his hand tightly enough to lead him, loosely enough for him to be unaware of it. She was an absolute natural. Or maybe all women could do that to all men, if they wanted to.
Ben H. Winters
#58. The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.
Molly Fumia
#59. Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
Ann Landers
#60. Notice if you are holding your breath after inhaling, and if so, what are you afraid of letting go. Or are you holding it after exhaling, and what are you afraid of letting in.
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
#61. The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#62. It had been many months since I'd shed tears for Tomaso, but grief is like that. It's not a continuous process; it comes in waves. You can keep it at bay for a time, like a dam holding back a lake, but them something triggers an explosion inside of you, shattering the wall and letting loose a flood.
Paul Adam
#63. There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.
Elizabeth Berg
#64. Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
Anne Lamott
#65. You deserve to live your best life now, so set yourself free by forgiving and letting go of that hurt you've been holding on to.
Jamie Larbi
#66. The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#67. The two of them holding each other, the tears flowing freely now, as if by never letting go they would never have to say goodbye.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#68. Holding on and getting attached is sadness. Letting go with love opens the heart to fill it with happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love is being brave and saying what you feel. Love is making music or playing tennis; it's doing what you want to do. Love is holding on and not letting go.
Robert Corbet
#70. Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.
Bryant McGill
#71. If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.
Richie Norton
#72. Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.
Lester Levenson
#73. We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.
Clive Barker
#74. But life can't be about holding on to the bad things. It has to be about grabbing on to the good things and letting the bad things go.
Sophie Kinsella
#75. Let me go!" she growls. "No." "Let me fucking go, Colton." Her voice is tiny, scared, vulnerable, and vehement. "You let go." "Why?" A hitch in her voice. "Because holding on to it is killing you.
Jasinda Wilder
#76. When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time.
Kristin Bartley Lenz
#77. To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.
Christine Caine
#78. I'll never let go of you again," she whispered. "I swear it.
Dianna Hardy
#79. And maybe getting a grip and letting go are not so dissimilar, when the holding on or the letting go is all part of moving on-getting on with it. Getting on with the difficult and dizzying business of living.
Tim Wynne-Jones
#80. Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.
Ajahn Chah
