“Holding on to something is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them.”— Sue Grafton, amazon.com
“Don’t hold on to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“...please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And I will always believe the same about you.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“Don’t be a fool. Don’t give up something important to hold onto someone who can’t even say they love you.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”— Ann Landers, amazon.com
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“The odds are high that the best of me has already been ripped away and that if I don’t keep hold of myself I will lose what’s left.”— Laure Wiess, amazon.com
“I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“Besides, it doesn’t matter if it’s real. It never does with dreams. They aren’t anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don’t drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone’s hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”— Tim Tharp, amazon.com
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”— Azar Nafisi, amazon.com
“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, goodreads.com