#holding

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #heartbreak #holding-out-for-the-best #letting-go #love

Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#breakups #dating #going-through-a-breakup #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself

Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#clarity #dating #finding-the-one #he-s-just-not-that-into-you #holding-out-for-the-best

We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that I could have all of him again, but I was always leaving and he was tired of watching me walk away. We both knew that I couldn’t stay and that he couldn’t come with me, but still, we couldn’t let go. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#kiss #let-go #love #relationships #walk-away

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#friend #holding #image #keep #mirror

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things. ↗

— Peter Singer

#contention #different #different things #field #holding

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#hall #holding #leading #little #marxist

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#dvd #experience #happens #holding #little

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#catch #difficult #generating #hard #hard work

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. ↗

— Jim Walton

#any #caution #cnn #decisions #editorial