Burden quotes
269 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that."
"Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being."
"The only burden you have ever had is your mind."
"I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom."
"Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry"
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"Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory."
"No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income."
"God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it."
"Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are."
"You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there."
"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."
"The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness."
"A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control."
"I love my kids. But I don't give them the burden of being the source of my love."
"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not."
"Burdens become light when cheerfully borne."
"Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden."
"Fame is a heavy burden."
"None knows the weight of another's burden."
"The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure."
"Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot."
"A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future."
"I live an idle burden to the ground."
"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."
"One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it."
