Best 391 quotes in «burden quotes» category

To friendship every burden's light.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

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

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?

We're not going to fix the sexual harassment epidemic unless we can acknowledge that this is not a women's issue, this is a man's issue. The burden should not be on the shoulders of women only to solve this, because we can't do it alone and it's not fair. We're seeing now the tsunami of all these women coming forward, which is such a blessing. But the tipping point will be when men in the workplace decide to be our allies.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you," He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

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.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts. “ ‘All illnesses are due to Karma,’ Daskalos replied. ‘It is either the result of your own debts or the debts of others you love.’ “ ‘I can understand paying for one’s own Karma but what does it mean paying the Karma of someone you love?’ I asked. “ ‘What do you think Christ meant,’ Daskalos said, ‘when he urged us to bear one another’s burdens?’ “ ‘Karma,’ Daskalos explained, ‘has to be paid off in one way or another. This is the universal law of balance. So when we love someone, we may assist him in paying part of his debt. But this,’ he said, ‘is possible only after that person has received his ‘lesson’ and therefore it would not be necessary to pay his debt in full. When most of the Karma has been paid off someone else can assume the remaining burden and relieve the subject from the pain. When we are willing to do that,’ Daskalos continued, ‘the Logos will assume nine-tenths of the remaining debt and we would actually assume only one-tenth. Thus the final debt that will have to be paid would be much less and the necessary pain would be considerably reduced. These are not arbitrary percentages,’ Daskalos insisted, ‘but part of the nature of things.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

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

Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.