Quotes About Holding on

She gets hold of the wooden gatepost and grips it with both hands. Everything is shattered but holding on to this post feels like the best course of action, the only thing to do. If she can stay here, at the gate, with her daughters on one side of her and her son on the other, she can hold everything together.

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

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

Sometimes life requires us to do nothing more than to just hang in there after we face the severest of storms and difficulties.

Feels like I'm stuck in a battle equipped with no armor but still standing strong... because to be a survivor you have to know how to keep holding on!!

I think part of the reason we hold on to something so tight is because we fear something so great won't happen twice.

The truth is always hard to swallow if you're choking on your pride. Love the one you've got, and appreciate who you have, you may think you hold the world in the palms of your hands, but it can still slip through your fingers.

Since the accident, Jonathan had noticed, she held on to things, a doorframe, a chair, as it either she or the world needed steadying.

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

He sheathed the sword and hung it back on the wall. "I expect he is dead now." He returned to his bunk. "I have learned that holding on to anger is like eating poison in the absurd expectation that your enemy will vomit blood. Anger destroys you—no other. You must not let that happen.

shallows, grabbed the bow rope, and held on for dear life. "Give me

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

It was the first time I had spoken to them directly. In doing so, I felt myself cross a fine but very distinct line, the line between speculating about the existence of a metaphysical plane of some sort and climbing aboard for the ride. I knew I had let go of my sanity. It was terrifying. I only did it because my fear of what was happening to my body had become greater than my fear of holding on to rational beliefs.

when so many people try to beat the angel out of you, you hang on for dear life.

Sometimes, we believe in life that life has to move on... we remenisce about the past, but realize that good things never last but somehow in someway we silently wish to hold on to the one we once had.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.

Love . . . It's a nice little trick if you can find it. We had found it. But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.

You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on.

Now I'm a glorified bureaucrat holding on by my fingernails as we all slide into super-powered chaos. A voice of reason in a world gone mad.

Back in the car, I sit for a long time, breathing. I'll remember this, what just happened, for a very long time. I'll be on my own deathbed someday, replaying this in my head, wishing it had gone differently. We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And this is the shittiest thing ever. "Are

I hadn't known that if you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change. It's big, and it's always incredibly messy. But there's no way around the mess.

It isn't failing that spells one's downfall; it's running away, giving up.

The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.