Withholding Quotes

• You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

  Laozi

  Giving, Determine

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• The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Pain, Stewardship

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• Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is, Self, Form

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 19, 2012

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• If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Honesty, Thinking, Desire

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• In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Judging, Choices

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 16, 2014

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• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Strength

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Positive, God

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• Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Thinking, Old Love

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 01, 2013

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• All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Grace, Pharaohs

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  Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

  David Sedaris

  Funny Love, Hurt, Real

  «At The Movies With David & Sarah» by David Sedaris, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Inspirational, Respect, Given

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Religious, Truth, Idols

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.114, Solid Christian Books

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• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  Eason Jordan

  People, Information, Sin

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• You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Giving, Deep Thought

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.146, Penguin

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• Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Information, Today, Sharing Information

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.160, Crown Business

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• If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Three, Cards

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

  Benjamin Rush

  Children, Mean, Mind

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

  Adyashanti

  Arise, Conclusion

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• Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Giving, Doe

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Believe, Heart, Giving

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• Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

  Ian Mcewan

  Narrative, Information, Tension

  "The Background Hum" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. February 23,2009.

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• Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.121, Penguin

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• Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

  Bruce Coville

  Essence, Tools, Information

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• Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Appreciation, Thinking, People

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.122, Penguin

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• Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Together, Bunch

  "Give to Uncle Sam What Is Uncle Sam's: Tax Season War Resistance" by Shane Claiborne, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2011.

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