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Holding Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
- Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
- We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route,…
- …feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
- The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only…
More Holding Quotes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
- I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you… — Kevin Bacon
- Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and… — Neal Barnard
- Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. — Lynn Abbey
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority… — Annie Besant
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings
- In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from… — Lewis Black
- It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. — Bertolt Brecht