Quotes About Burden

I felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders until I REALIZED I had the power to take it off

People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)

To worry is to wear yourself out.

The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.

When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.

Whenever religion becomes a depressing affair of burdens and prohibitions, it ceases to be true religion.

But you can be too intelligent, I said. Sometimes it's not an asset it's a curse.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

In a fleshy tomb I am buried above ground.

Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.

I felt the weight of unmapped worlds, unborn language.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

A vast amount of "social reform" consists in just this operation. The consequence is that those who have gone astray, being relieved from Nature's fierce discipline, go on to worse, and that there is a constantly heavier burden for the others to bear. Who

A man who is present as a consumer, yet who does not contribute either by land, labor, or capital to the work of society, is a burden. On

He drops out of the ranks of workers and producers. Society must support him. It accepts the burden, but he must be cancelled from the ranks of the rulers likewise. So

The Forgotten Man works and votes—generally he prays—but his chief business in life is to pay.

There is no mountain so heavy as the guilt of the least sin is to an awakened conscience.

Such high interest rates are prohibitive for long-term projects; at 20% per annum, the amount owed doubles in less than four years. With such a crushing future burden, no rational businessman or corporation borrows to fund a project that will not become profitable for five or ten years, as is the case with most large commercial undertakings.

Everything that's been done to us we carry forever.

We all have secrets. With them, we're like squirrels with nuts. We hide them away, and bitter though they may be, we feed on them.

Some people lived with dark secrets all their lives...

Debts are the modern day chains that keep us enslaved.

Given AC as a rival to naturalism, there is an additional burden of proof for a naturalist ontology that quantifies over sui generis emergent properties such as those constitutive of consciousness. After