“Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I give you all my love because I truly love you, but I can't give you my soul and my heart because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out?” — Jen Tindugan-Adoviso Copy Share Image
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the war zone of arguments, debates, criticism - silence is the safe house.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“She felt it all right at the back of her throat, like a bomb – or a tiger – sitting on the… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling. — Dane Reynolds Copy Share Image
I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately… — Graham Kerr Copy Share Image
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the… — David Deida Copy Share Image
All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I believe in giving everything my best shot. I do not believe in holding back. I am very driven by the fact… — Shailender Singh Copy Share Image
When a drop of water touches a drop of water there is no holding back - it joins. Water responds to water.… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he’d seen her… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
... He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “I don't want… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too. — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal! — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every #video, picture, event or show on social… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our… — Max More Copy Share Image
Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image