Holding Back Quotes

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Telling you how I know…what I know…it could make things worse than they already are…for all of us

~ Dennis Sharpe

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

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

~ Anonymous

I am pointing to you that under these conditions--mental strain, physical malaise--it is highly probable that dislikes that were before merely mild and disagreements that were trivial might suddenly assume a more serious note. The result of pretending to be a more amiable, a more forgiving, a more high-minded person than one really is, has sooner or later the effect of causing one to behave as a more disagreeable, a more ruthless and an altogether more unpleasant person than is actually the case! If you dam the stream of natural behavior, mon ami, sooner or later the dam bursts and cataclysm occurs.

~ Agatha Christie

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out?

~ Jen Tindugan-Adoviso

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

~ Shannon L. Alder

She wasn’t crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he’d seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn’t that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother’s life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that.

~ Francesca Lia Block

There is no time for holding back.

~ A.d. Posey

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I wonder, though…what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.

~ Jenny Han

We're taught and trained to hold it all inside, to not feel the beauty of the innocence of letting it out when and how we feel it.And we do; we do for the fear of avoiding the stigma of weakness, until it breaks us from the inside, slowly and silently, and there is little or nothing left of us. Those who are courageous to hold on, learn to be strong and proficiently wave off the numerous darts as they come. Do they, really? It takes just one planned move, and all the impenetrable walls come crashing down.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every #video, picture, event or show on social media.On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things all together can help much more than hurt.

~ Loren Weisman