Quotes About Burden

Parecemos con demasiada frecuencia un caminante exhausto que lleva un pesado saco al hombro llena de una mezcla de provisiones y piedras. ¿No sería más razonable dejarlo un momento en el suelo para separar una cosa de otra y aligerar la carga?.

El corazón le pesaba dentro del pecho y ni siquiera notaba cómo la cera goteaba en su mano.

What are we to do now? Must we hate the enemy to the end of time? The burden of hatred is the heaviest that man can bear upon this earth; and we should faint under the weight of it. On the other hand, we do not wish once more to be the dupes and victims of confidence and love.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

ljudi nekud idu, vra?aju se, žure, vidim ih iz svoje nesabrane daljine, kao mrave, i znam da bi trebalo da se i ja priklju?im, da budem užurban, da nekud odlazim, da dolazim, da se oko ne?ega trudim, a ne da buljim ovako u tavanicu, u prazninu. Ali ne mogu. Gledam kroz prozor i nastojim da ne mislim na nerješive stvari, ali ne mogu da se oslobodim tereta što me tišti.

Ni bol ne osje?am, samo prazninu. Zašto je ne zatrpati?

Niko nikome ne može natovariti toliko muke na vrat koliko ?ovjek sam sebi.

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.

It's hard, he told her, when everyone wants it so much but you're the one who has to do it.

Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater!

Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

I want to cry because my mind is working too much

I placed quite a burden on Anakin, didn't I, by giving him that name." –Leia Organa Solo "He is strong enough to carry that burden, Leia...He's young, yet he has courage and intelligence." –Elegos A'Kla

With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.

Schools often use Black students in this way in order to achieve racial reckoning on the cheap. They avoid bringing in teachers—or, in other settings, corporations avoid bringing in experts—to address gaps, holes, and areas of ignorance. And the burden for teaching falls on the few Black or Brown folk in the room or office, instead of being assumed by the white folk in those arenas in need of the reflection and change. It is all so utterly exhausting.

The drive to make everything lightweight is depriving us of the the deep reassurance of heft.

I can understand the feeling of a man struggling to escape the practical slavery imposed by the multitude of obligations which crowd upon a man who tries to be a good citizen. Root writes to Jack Morgan in 1927 about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from Michael Gross' Rogues Gallery

And those of us with a strong burden for the purity of the Body must remember something essential: Jesus, not sin, must be our emphasis! Preachers who major on sin and minor on Jesus are like a bridegroom who takes his eyes off his precious bride as she walks down the aisle and focuses instead on a fly on her gown. We need to stay centered on our Savior and Lord!

a heavy, hooded wool