Burden Quotes

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

A heart's a heavy burden.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Every burden is a blessing.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.