Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

When a drop of water touches a drop of water there is no holding back - it joins. Water responds to water. Your being responds to what is the same, outside of you, as your own being.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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