Burden Quotes
106 quotes
"Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything."
"Kill what you can't savewhat you can't eat throw outwhat you can't throw out buryWhat you can't bury give awaywhat you can't give away you must carry with you,it is always heavier than you thought."
"Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time"
"Sometimes looking like you know is better than actually knowing. People respect you, and defer to you, yet you don’t have the burden that comes with heavy knowledge."
"A person with too many secrets has no happiness but burden. He/She cant find joy or peace, but those secrets enslave him or her. It doesn't matter how many secrets you keep but at the end truth always comes out. Why then burden yourself with secrets."
"Rejecting sin is not a burden; on the contrary, it brings freedom and relief."
"Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted."
"Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget."
"Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"I see your painas clearly as I feel my own.I will share your burden so you feel it less.Do not hate this world.Do not hate these people.I will share my hopeso you feel it more.I want you to see our loveas clearly as I feel yours."
"She wears it so beautifully doesn’t she, her pain… Always smiling, always positive…. always happy to help… It’s like a garment perfectly tailored to fit the way she carries it… with a touch of grace… and the quietness of that sad smile…. All so you’d never know how heavy it really was."
"i feel everything.i do not know how to un-feeland to not feelis to stop the sun."
"i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore."
"May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human."
"Clouds are on top for a reason. They float so high because they refuse to carry any burden!"
"Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss."
"When the yoke is broken, the burden is removed."
"Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter."
"It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity."
"The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn't surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself - the burden of self-importance. The narcissist reconstructs his own law of gravity which states that all things and all creatures must adhere to his personal satisfaction, but when they do not, the pain is far more intense than it is for one who is free from the clamors of 'I'."
"This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience."
"When the burden is too heavy on your heart. Cast the weight upon the Lord, for he cares that, you call out to his holy Name."
"The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves."
"Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden."
"I didn’t want to upset my loved ones, but I couldn’t carry this alone."
"The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us."
"That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it."
"My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here."
"He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up."
"If you keep the burden on your head, God (Bhagwan) will move away."
"The world is not going to stop whether you become ‘emotional’ or whether you don’t become ‘emotional’. The burden on one’s head comes from becoming ‘emotional’. Otherwise, the world continues to run, it will never stand still."
"Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry."
"The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong."
"There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back."
"Our life gets prettier when we try to lighten the burden of others."
"Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery."
"By staying married, we give something to ourselves and to others: hope. Hope that in steadfastly loving someone, we ourselves, for all our faults, will be loved; that the broken world will be made whole. To hitch your rickety wagon to the flickering star of another fallible human being -- what an insane thing to do. What a burden, and what a gift."
"I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around."
"Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of yourchildren, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May youunderstand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world."
"His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream."
"Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart"
"Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore."
"...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden."
"It takes more energy to be negative than positive for negativity is a burden." HS/el"
Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
"Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us."
"If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!"
"Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted."
"She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens."
"God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've found that the things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden."
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