Quotes About Holding On And Not Letting Go

#1. 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

#2. Because this time he's holding my hand and not letting go. And I'm not letting go either.

Lisa Greenwald

#3. We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

Ajahn Chah

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

Richie Norton

#8. Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.

Bryant McGill

#9. Holding on and getting attached is sadness. Letting go with love opens the heart to fill it with happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#10. 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

#11. The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

Elizabeth Berg

#15. 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

#16. The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.

Molly Fumia

#20. 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

#21. You let go of my hand
to hold on to my heart
Distance grasps us tight
now that we are apart

Munia Khan

#22. When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

Stephenie Meyer

#23. Letting go is impossible when you're holding a grudge. -Faydra D. Fields

Faydra D. Fields

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

Donna Lynn Hope

#29. Holding onto what was isn't healthy for what is.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#30. He was there. Like always, holding me up when I couldn't' stand and letting me go when he knew I needed him to. He was more than just a shelter. Aiden was my other half, my equal.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#31. He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.

Mitch Albom

#32. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

C. JoyBell C.

#33. I'm going to make you come harder and longer than you ever have before, baby, and I'm going to feel every shudder, every ripple of that orgasm as it rips through you because I am going to be right here holding tight to you, buried deep inside you. And, Nikki, I'm not ever letting go.

J. Kenner

#34. The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don't see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.

Mandy Hale

#35. 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

#36. Hush," I said. "I'm here, and I'm not letting you out of my sight anytime soon so keep holding me tight." I looked down, a little more than afraid of plummeting hundreds of feet down.- Breena to Kian, Silver Frost

Kailin Gow

#37. I'll never let go of you again," she whispered. "I swear it.

Dianna Hardy

#38. We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Keith Richards

#39. The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

Jesse Lee Peterson

#40. Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always.

Robert Jordan

#41. The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we're holding on to that which we're climbing, or we're letting God hold onto us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.

Damian Barr

#45. While seeing or hearing, touching or smelling; eating, moving about, or sleeping; breathing 9 or speaking, letting go or holding on, even opening or closing the eyes, they understand that these are only the movements of the senses among sense objects. 10

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#46. Was it hard?" I ask.
Letting go?"
Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.

Lisa Schroeder

#47. Love isn't about holding on. It's about letting go.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#48. Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

Lenny Santos

#49. Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go

Hermann Hesse

#50. [I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no telling oneself that this does not belong, or that. No hewing to the line. No cutting. No fear of letting the interest die. No wastebasket. How wonderful. And how dull!

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#51. Letting go is easier than holding onto something that isn't real

Steven Aitchison

#52. 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

#53. Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.

Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

#60. Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Wan-Ling, Wong

#61. 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

#62. I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.

Ken Wilber

#63. 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

#64. Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.

Toni Sorenson

#65. 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

#66. Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

Socrates

#67. 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

#68. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering

Rajneesh

#72. 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

#73. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

Keith Urban

#74. His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#75. 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

#76. I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.

Tite Kubo

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Jenny Han

#83. You know ... Holding on isn't holding on. It's letting go.

Lindy Zart

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. You don't smile when you're holding on. You smile when you're letting go.

Taylor Adams

#88. Quickly, Ian learned the danger of holding her. Once he allowed his arm around her, letting her go was nearly impossible.

Dana Marton

#89. Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

Spencer Johnson

#90. 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

#91. holding grudges is like letting someone live rent free in your mind

J.L. Beck

#92. 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

#93. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Margaret Atwood

#94. Life is about holding on and letting go.

Keith Urban

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. Forgiveness is about letting go of the past and not holding on to it

Oprah Winfrey

#100. Once I had her hand, I never wanted to let go of her.

Ottilie Weber