Quotes About Holding on

Autumn poses the question we all have to live with: How to hold on to the things we love even though we know that we and they are dying. How to see the world as it is, yet find light within that truth.

There seemed to be almost nothing left of Lalitha; she was breaking up on him the way dead songbirds did in the wild-they were impossibly light to begin with, and as soon as their little hearts stopped beating they were barely more than bits of fluff and hollow bone, easily scatterd in the wind-but this only made him more determined to hold onto what little of her he still had.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go off.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of

but I suspect he feels that if he gave his attention to a book and lost himself in it, he might never be found again, and the world he is trying to hold on to might spin out of his control.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it." ? Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

Because holding onto someone is not the same as keeping them close. - I Am Not Myself These Days

Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future.

Arthur tried to hold her hand to steady her and reassure her, but she wouldn't let him. He held on to his airline hold-all with its tin of Greek olive oil, its towel, its crumpled postcards of Santorini and its other odds and ends. He steadied and reassured that instead.

Try and hang on," said Dad. "Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—" Bertie was sick.

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

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

In key times I performed well against Rafael Nadal regardless of the surface. The fact is you need to hold on as long as possible. You need to be strong in key times. And when there's the slightest opportunity, you need to seize it because he's one of the best players when things get tough.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

I could not bear his expression. That look said, this is a long good-bye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

Ma had been a tumbleweed too, holding on for as long as she could, then blowing away on the wind. My father was more like the sod. Steady, silent, and deep. Holding on to life, with reserves underneath to sustain him, and me, And anyone else who came near. My father stayed rooted, even with my tests and my temper, even with the double sorrow of his grief and my own, he had kept a home until I broke it.

As hard as it was to hold on to things, it was even harder to let them go.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?

2.07 WALK OF LIFELife but like a cycle that you be riding, You will fall if you ever stop peddling, Life not of good cards you be holding, But those held and how you be playing.[68] - 4

The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we're holding on to that which we're climbing, or we're letting God hold onto us.

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.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.