Quotes About Holding On

#1. Accept, forgive and forget. Forgive not only the people who hurt us, but also forgive ourselves, accepting whatever is the outcome, then forget the wrongs, learn from them and move on. Holding on to the guilt and pain would just make life miserable for us.

Kcat Yarza

#2. Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.

Ogwo David Emenike

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

Jenny Han

#4. Keeping or holding on to a concept shows belief but building or adding to it shows confidence and depth of character.

Delma Pryce

#5. You hold on tight from now on, so tight it hurts. Got it? Don't let go of me, not ever. Don't worry about hurting me, don't worry about suffocating me, don't worry about holding on too tight. You hold on and you never let go. You'll only hurt me, I'll only suffocate, if you let go. Promise.

Lindy Zart

#6. He gave a sudden shake as if he couldn't stand to feel his life still holding on to him.

Sarah Porter

#7. 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

#8. I went to a women's college ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

Anna Quindlen

#9. I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

Katrina Kaif

#10. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Alan Watts

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

Spencer Johnson

#12. Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Jack Kornfield

#13. We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Michael Novak

#14. Joy means holding on to hope in God regardless of the outcome. Declaring we will give up everything and entrust ourselves more fully and wholly to the One who holds all things together.

Margaret Feinberg

#15. Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Lynn Abbey

#16. Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God," Herbert McCabe, O.P., quoted in Christian Century, August 21, 2013, 21. Any

Rev. Joseph A. Heim

#17. 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

#18. What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me ... There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else

Lorraine Hansberry

#19. Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk - as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed.

Rudyard Kipling

#20. Don't be affraid to break, Maggie. Stop holding on to the ugliness just to stay whole.

Lexi Ryan

#21. I'll carry you. But she was already holding on, and though she knew she'd have to soon, she didn't see how she'd ever be able to let go of him.

Melissa Cutler

#22. I'm ready for the day when Mom loves me too much to keep me, and for every other person who will someday see that I'm not worth holding on to.

Soojung Jo

#23. I learned that every choice has an outcome and I learned that holding on to bitterness is a poison that eats away at you from the inside.

Mia Sheridan

#24. Fifteen years is too long to be holding on to a few heart-pounding moments from college.

Renee Carlino

#25. Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

Iwan Rheon

#26. 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.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Stephenie Meyer

#28. Holding on to the weak is called strength.

Laozi

#29. There comes a moment in every woman's life when something she was tightly holding on to - just slips from her hands. Sometimes it's a dream. Sometimes it's a place . . . a person . . . a purpose. Sometimes it's the life you always thought you'd be living.

Kristen Welch

#30. Body scan meditation is mentally scanning through each part of the body with presence. It helps us be one with the body. Thus, we can feel if we are holding on to any tension or heaviness or any static emotions. And by doing so, we can find relief and internal freedom.

Christopher Dines

#31. I feel frozen holding on to the flame of my own duality..

Munia Khan

#32. Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

Lin Yutang

#33. For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Iyanla Vanzant

#34. Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost

Kevin Arnold

#35. No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.

Neil Cross

#36. Fear kept you sharp, that it kept you steadfastly holding on to your life.

Kendare Blake

#37. I have stuff from 1979, 1980 in my collection. But I also have things from 2012. So I don't know if it's memorabilia as much as it is holding on to things that I find relevant that most people might not.

Ian MacKaye

#38. Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer.

Kathryn Lasky

#39. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.

Fredrik Backman

#40. You felt the burden of holding much material in memory, as you needed to keep track of where you were and of where you were going, while holding on to the intermediate result.

Daniel Kahneman

#41. How did you do it? How did you manage to remain unmangled?"
"By holding on to just one rule."
"Which?"
"To place nothing-nothing-above the verdict of my own mind.

Ayn Rand

#42. Here's the good I'm holding on to today. I'm lucky to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.

Vi Keeland

#43. And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.

Haruki Murakami

#44. The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

Ray Nagin

#45. When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.

James Arthur Ray

#46. Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.

C.S. Lewis

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

Molly Fumia

#48. I'd lost all track of time. It was only now that I was no longer preoccupied holding on to the werewolf's back for dear life that I glanced at my watch. Ten o'clock. "Crap. I need to get home now. It's past nine-thirty.

Bella Forrest

#49. 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

#50. the thing worth holding on to would not have let go

Rupi Kaur

#51. If you're following God and haven't lost much of what you've been holding on to - follow a little closer.

Bob Goff

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

Pema Chodron

#53. She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.

Ayn Rand

#54. Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

Bill Bruford

#55. Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

Lauren DeStefano

#56. There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.

Mordecai Ham

#57. Real love is sometimes painful. It isn't just the highest of the high - it's also the lowest of the low. It's being on that bottom rung, holding on with half a finger as you struggle to breathe through the pain.

Ella Fox

#58. You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.

Jeff Foxworthy

#59. We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.

Bryant McGill

#60. 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

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

Pema Chodron

#62. When you got a guy hanging over the cliff holding on with one hand, you don't want him to get his other hand up there, you want to go ahead and stomp on it

Trot Nixon

#63. Sometimes when you hold on too loosely, it's as if you aren't holding on at all.

Layla M. Wier

#64. This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

C.S. Lewis

#65. I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

Evel Knievel

#66. People will come and go as they are scheduled to. Let them. Holding on does not affect them, only you.

Brianna Wiest

#67. I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

Zainab Salbi

#68. I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

Kola Boof

#69. A part of me so desperately wanted to believe it was possible, but the other part of me knew that holding on to false hope can be a dangerous thing.

Autumn Doughton

#70. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo ... and it's worth fighting for.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#71. Holding on is fine, but when your skin turns pale and begins to crack and bleed, it may be time to take a look at what's in your hand.

Susan Mrosek

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

Debasish Mridha

#73. 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

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

Bryant McGill

#75. I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

Mario Cantone

#76. The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

Carlos Castaneda

#77. Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

Liane Moriarty

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

Richie Norton

#79. Autumn always fascinated me - so much beauty in dying. Leaves holding on until the bitter end, finally going down in a blaze of glory, almost as if they were trying to convince us to keep them alive.

Myra McEntire

#80. The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

David Levithan

#81. Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

C.S. Lewis

#82. Holding on to expectations is often the source of unforgiving feelings.

Virginia H. Pearce

#83. I watched the way our fingers intertwined, and I thought, What are hands made for but this? For holding. For holding on.

James Patterson

#84. I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.

Drake

#85. You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

#86. 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

#87. The human mind is a complicated place ... We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.

Corey Ann Haydu

#88. The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Suzanne Fields

#89. Dear Future You,
Hold on. Please.
Love, Me.
Dear Current You,
I'm holding on. But it hurts.
Love, Me.
Dear Past You,
I held on. Thank you.
Love, Me.

Pleasefindthis

#90. Disappointment and pain are parts of life. Holding on to them can wreck your life.

Charles F. Glassman

#91. You just have to dream. You have to dream until your knuckles are bloody from fighting for it and white from holding on to it. It doesn't matter what other people think or say-- what matters is your dream.

Lynn Titus

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

Keith Richards

#93. If she lets go, it's all over. If I let go, it's all over. And because she is holding on so tight, I hold on so tight.

David Levithan

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

Jesse Lee Peterson

#95. In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

Pharrell Williams

#96. Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

Euripides

#97. There's no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there's only ignorance. You think you are holding on to something pure, but you aren't. You're just ignorant. You are handicapped by everything you don't yet know.

Eleanor Catton

#98. If you keep holding on to the past, the pain will never go away.

Jessamine Verzosa

#99. He buried his face in my throat. "Love you." Tears stung my eyes. He said the words so rarely. "Tell me again," I begged, holding on to him. His mouth found mine. "I love you . . .

Sylvia Day

#100. We make a picture," he said, "of how we want the world to be, and most of the time it isn't like that. Holding on to that image causes the suffering. Not the world, not the truth. Our disappointment is what makes us hurt.

M.L.N. Hanover