Top 42 Quotes About Holding On Or Letting Go
#1. 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
#2. Life is about holding on and letting go.
Keith Urban
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. Once I had her hand, I never wanted to let go of her.
Ottilie Weber
#7. Forgiveness is about letting go of the past and not holding on to it
Oprah Winfrey
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
Margaret Atwood
#14. 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
#15. holding grudges is like letting someone live rent free in your mind
J.L. Beck
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Quickly, Ian learned the danger of holding her. Once he allowed his arm around her, letting her go was nearly impossible.
Dana Marton
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.
Tite Kubo
#25. 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
#26. His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#27. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
Keith Urban
#28. 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
#29. I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering
Rajneesh
#30. 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
#31. 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
#33. 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
#34. Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
Socrates
#35. 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
#36. Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.
Toni Sorenson
#37. 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
#38. I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.
Ken Wilber
#39. 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
#40. Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
Wan-Ling, Wong
#41. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
#42. 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
