“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”

“I need so.. to be in your arms, see your smile, hold you close.”

Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

John Dufresne (1948) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright

“As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile Like someone would hold a crying child Soon everybody will ask what became of you
Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.”

Ben Gibbard (1976) American singer, songwriter and guitarist

“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

“You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper