Holding On Quotes

Holding On Quote of the day

Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won’t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

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.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

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

Don't forget where you come from Don't die holding on to your words Cause you know you got a whole world to change But understand who you got to change first

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

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

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.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

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

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

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

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.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

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.

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

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

Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

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

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

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

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.

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

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.

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

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

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

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

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

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.

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

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.

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.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

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

If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.

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

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

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

Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

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

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

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.