Holding On Quotes - Page 5

• There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

  Lauren Oliver

  Darkness, Want, Happens

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• 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 the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fighting, Towers, Stories

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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

  Keith Richards

  Age, Youth, Grows

  "Keith Richards turns 70! Celebrate with rocker's famed wisdom" by Kurt Schlosser, www.today.com. December 18, 2013.

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• It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Fire, Blue

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• 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

  Reality, Deaf And Blind, World

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• When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him.

  Susane Colasanti

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.75, Penguin

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

  Stephenie Meyer

  Letting Go, Energy, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• 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

  Children, Years, Want

  "Zainab Salbi: Escape from tyranny". Interview With Homa Khaleeli, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2013.

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• Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, Break, Break Your Heart

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• Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. "Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.

  Brenda Jackson

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Fighting

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• Keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through. We'll make it through. Just stay strong, cause you know I'm here for you. I'm here for you. There's nothing you could say. Nothing you could do. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, but keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through.

  Avril Lavigne

  Stay Strong, Way, Causes

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• Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Fiber, Steps, Impossible

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• I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Rivers, Dear Life, Stuck

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• Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.

  Nicole Krauss

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Sky

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• 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

  Letting Go, Reality, Destiny

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• Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

  Tamar Myers

  Men, Saws, Affair

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• Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

  Stephen Levine

  Should Have, Suffering, Might

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.3, Anchor

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• Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

  Pema Chodron

  Block

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.180, Shambhala Publications

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• I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Thinking, People, Office

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• Young love don't know nothin' when the radio plays you sing along. When she's holding on you just can't get close enough, you swear it's sent from above. It's real,it's good, and it's young love

  Kip Moore

  Real, Play, Young Love

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• A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.

  King Edward VIII

  Love, Girl, Heart

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation Practice, Moments, Settling

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Police, Records, Significant

  "High court reverses inmate's death sentence" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in the way of moving objects around. But this isn't attained by holding one's breath or thinking right thoughts or voting Republican or any other superstitous or mystic practice. So for the reason I brought up, rule out, auditor, any mumbo jumbo or mysticism, spiritualism, or religion.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Moving, Simple, Thinking

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• Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Orchestra

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