Holding On Quotes - Page 14

• When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hurt, Memories, May

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.96, Anchor

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• Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Self, Should Have

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• Everyone has got the fear
  It's holding on
  It's holding on.

  Thom Yorke

  "Song: 'The National Anthem'". 2000.

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.144

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• I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Love, Letting Go, Strong

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 22, 2012

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• Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

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• 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

  Letting Go, Practice, Enlightenment

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• 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

  Inspirational, Strength, Letting Go

  "Letting Go and Feeling Good About It" by Pamela Dussault, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Mean, Hunting, Racing

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• It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Nice, Two, People

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• If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

  Janis Joplin

  Sometimes, Holding Back, Be Good

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• Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  People, Mines

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Lunar Park”, p.206, Pan Macmillan

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  Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Forever, Might

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.600, Simon and Schuster

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• Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Writing, Long, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 02, 2014

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• Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me...and the same is true for you.

  Anita Moorjani

  Taken, Needs, Stuck

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from May 30, 2013

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• Probably. It's a weird thing with accents.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

  Real, Drama, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Phones, Years

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• That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Art, Forever, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did dance music for a short period of time but I felt like the fruit for me was in the outer dance world so I stopped doing overt techno and I think, in terms of rhythm, I enjoy things that feel like they're falling off, like they're just barely holding on.

  Tim Hecker

  Fall, Thinking, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bulldogs, Choke, Career Change

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.234, Stackpole Books

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• Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

  Kristin Hannah

  Sometimes

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front: A Novel”, p.201, Macmillan

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• We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

  James Hillman

  Giving, Office, Authority

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• I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

  Suzanne Collins

  Letting Go, Games, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.483, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fall, Boys, Men

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