Quotes about holding-on

You make the decision to love everyday, whether you feel the magic or not. It's the decision that creates perseverance, not the feeling of love in itself, because sometimes, butterflies do not suffice

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.

Holding onto what was isn't healthy for what is.

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

I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it.

What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they’re small and to be held by them once they’ve grown tall. It’s empty arms a mother dreads.

for all I can really do isstand herein September’s rainsavoring…soaking it all inslipping..and simplyholding on to poetryfor dear life.

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

for those memories are nowjust like these little kittensI hold in my handsthose can be kissedand treasuredbut not held too tightly.

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

Unconditional love goes beyond holding on and letting go. Real love is about truth. It's about looking at what's really going on instead of the stories we tell ourselves about it. It's about being able to love someone from afar, when we need to, because we see that closeness turns us into the worst versions of ourselves.

What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.

Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest and take everything good with them, little burglars, those moments, those hours, those days you loved the most.

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.

If I had one night, I'd hold you in my arms,Find redemption, no more contention,Keeping you close. Too long, years gone,Wasted away. One night, our night,Remember this. I won't forget you,No I won't forget you.—Red-Eyed Loons

In reality nobody can grasp anything permanently in life. Absolutely nothing. Somethings may stay in memory for a while but eventually that too fades away.

And now—our love is so true, I won’t take a step without you. Thank God, you came. If you love me, please don’t ever let me go.

No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.

The word goodbye stuck to her tongue. She wasn’t ready to say it. Because goodbye weighed more when forever hung off the end. And she wasn’t sure about forever. She wasn’t sure about anything. Except that, at that moment, she wanted to believe he would always be there. Even if it meant many years down the road. She needed to still have something to hold onto.

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.

Why am I so weak, why do I care so much?What is holding on, what's wrong with me..

Hope is when against all odds a tiny flame keeps burning for the possibility.

The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.

Not enough people realize that ADHD is not a disorder about loss of focus. It is a disorder of loss of emotional control, which is triggered by outside influences, self-esteem and our interpretation of events. Whether this is positive or negative it triggers us to hyper focus on what consumes our thoughts. Staying positive is critical and distancing oneself from hurtful people is essential, in order to live a life with purpose.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost

No matter how dark and hopeless a situation may seem, always hold on and never give up your dream.

The old adage that people only want what they can’t have or what they can’t tame— is totally primitive. A being of higher origins will know instinctively that life on earth is a series of chances, moments and concepts. That’s really all that you have. So when you find one of these things and it makes you burn, or it makes you feel peace inside, or it makes you look forwards and backwards and here all at the same time— that’s when you know to hold onto it. And you hold onto it with every fiber of

Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.

When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

Sometimes the strongest thing you will ever do will be to let go of someone. It will be painful, you will suffer guilt, and you will second-guess yourself, but for your own sanity and quality of life, there will come a time where you hand them to God, with your love, and trust Him to be who and what He is. May our Lord comfort you.

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.

I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars.

Remember what you always told me.” “Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.

When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.

Sometimes words just arent enough. Sometimes it's easier to magically lose yourself in the memories long past, the ones you so selfishly took for granted. And sadly sometimes that's the only way to keep those people in your life- recapturing their glorious light before they fade. And inevitably their memory along with them.

We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.

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

Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.

Holding on and getting attached is sadness. Letting go with love opens the heart to fill it with happiness.

I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.

Maybe I hold on for too long, but maybe you don’t hold on for long enough?

You let go of my hand to hold on to my heartDistance grasps us tightnow that we are apart

It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.