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• My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. I was coming out of a melancholic phase. This was taken when I was traveling extensively, on the road from hotel to hotel. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.

  Nan Goldin

  Taken, Self, Order

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• Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Tree, Doe, Incompetence

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• I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Nike, Wall, Office

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• I love you but you didn't bring me flowers. Your love is hanging on flowers! You are seasonal, conditional, demanding and bargaining. Love is not a bargain. Love is not a business. It cannot be bought and sold. It has no condition. When you put a condition on love, it evaporates.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Flower

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• Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, War, Next Day

  American Mercury, Apr. 1928

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• Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Mean, Doe

  Chogyam Trungpa (1991). “The Heart of the Buddha”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Kings, Angel

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1859). “Sermons Preached and Revised by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, Fifth Series. New York, Sheldon”, p.20

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• Perseverance is more than endurance."
  It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.

  Oswald Chambers

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Hero

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.124, Discovery House

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• Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Climbing, Tree

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life”, p.342, Harper Collins

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• If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Writing, Rifles

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• I’ll never forget the first time I ran with a group of Kenyan women in 2004... The first mile was way slower than my typical run to the point where I was looking around thinking, “Are they for real? These are the fastest women in the world?” But by mile 5 we were buzzing along, mile six I was hitting the gas, and mile seven I was hanging on for dear life.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Running, Real, Thinking

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• Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Lying, Mean

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• The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Teacher, Lust, Students

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• The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Moving, Creative

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• I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Passing, Passings

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Pain, Wall

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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• Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wall, Cat, Gun

  "Eric". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• You know, bud, I don’t know you from Adam, but that’s my baby sister you’re hanging on to. So I’m thinking the wisest course of action for you is to let her go and introduce yourself. Pronto. (Rain)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Rain, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.557, Macmillan

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• Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.

  Giorgio Armani

  Inspirational, Educational, Organization

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• Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

  Logan Lerman

  Life Is, Dear Life, Rollercoaster

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• I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

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• Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Competition, Winner

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.244, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Years, Water

  Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.21, Grove Press

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• The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Taste, Pleasure, Salvation

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• Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

  Dan Miller

  Opportunity, Risk, Misery

  Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.68, Crown Business

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