Holding On Quotes - Page 11

• I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.

  Caroline Myss

  Pain, Grief, Heart

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• O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.

  John Woolman

  War, Light, House

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• I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Cancer, May, Reason

  "Farrah Fawcett Fought for Privacy While Battling Cancer" by Sharyn Alsonfi, Anna Wild, Kelly Hagan, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. May 12, 2009.

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

  Lenny Santos

  Letting Go, Moving Up, After Break Up

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• Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

  Bill Crawford

  Pain, Past, Order

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• No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Letting Go, Strong, Thinking

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

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Might

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• 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

  Stars, Tricks, Contemporary

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• Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• Mexicans who come to America today end up opposing assimilation. They say they are "holding on to their culture." To them, I say, "If you really wanted to hold on to your culture, you would be in favor of assimilation. You would be fearless about swallowing English and about becoming Americanized. You would be much more positive about the future, and much less afraid. That's what it means to be Mexican.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, America, Mexican

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I do a little bit of hand-holding on the big cases. You know, like health care, I'll call over and say, "Don't worry. We've got it under control. We have the best people working on it. We're on schedule. Stay calm." So, those kinds of things.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Hands, People, Worry

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• 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

  People, Might, Stuff

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• 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

  Letting Go, Writing, Who I Am

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to collapse. It's the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

  Adam Yauch

  Responsibility, Dictatorship, Situation

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• 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

  Father, Son, Gun

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• 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

  Culture, Way, Belief

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• Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Games, Guy, Chocolate

  "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory of the election was California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okay, he's sui generis. But he won a landslide victory after moving to the center, while holding onto conservatives by not hiking taxes.

  Fred Barnes

  Moving, California, Hiking

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• And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Past, Attachment, Ideas

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• It was really hard to do that at first. You have been holding onto this thing - even though you know what someone has done before and you have faith in what they can achieve - it's just a matter of whether that's gonna be right for you. At first you do need to be quite protective; to make sure it's going down the right track, so I was pretty nervous to begin with.

  Sarah Blasko

  Track, Needs, Done

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• 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

  Hands, Guy, Want

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• 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

  Order, Yesterday, Glory

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• We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Earth, Incapable

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• Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

  Derek Landy

  Love Is, Finding Someone, Dear Life

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• The key to being able to let go of all the stuff you're holding on to is knowing that you'll be okay if you don't have it.
  And that's the truth.
  You can survive with very little. And though the passing of people and things can be painful, you will survive.

  John C. Parkin

  Letting Go, Knowing, Keys

  John C. Parkin (2010). “F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way”, p.38, Hay House, Inc

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