Quotes About Burden

es mejor tener la boca llena de veneno que un secreto del corazón. Cualquier idiota sabe escupir el veneno, pero nosotros guardamos esos tesoros dolorosos. Tragamos para contenerlos todos los días, obligándonos a permanecer en lo más profundo de nosotros. Ahí se quedan, volviéndose cada vez más pesados, enconándose. Con el tiempo, no pueden evitar aplastar el corazón que los contiene.

Así de pesado puede volverse un secreto. Puede hacer que la sangre fluya más fácilmente que la tinta.

Había días que te aplastaban como una losa.

it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. Any fool will spit out poison, he says, but we hoard these painful treasures. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

Beasts of burden, we shouldered bundles of what pieces of the past we were allowed to keep as we joined the river of fear, a current of shuffling feet, sobs, and whimpers that crept past dark mouths of archways and windows of Terezin.

The purpose of life," Peterson has written, "is finding the largest burden you can bear and bearing it," while Žižek believes that "the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle.

Some devotees will faithfully carry the burden (and attend the midweek program), but most see missions as one option among many. Often the music ministry or men's ministry or hundreds of other specialized ministries will keep people from involvement in the wider world.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

Blessed is he who has found enlightenment. He conquers, although he may be wounded; he is glorious and happy, although he may suffer; he is strong, although he may break down under the burden of his work; he is immortal, although he may die. The essence of his being is purity and goodness. 14

Schwerer werden. Leichter sein.

The world is gone, I have to carry you.

God knows that we are incapable of carrying the burden of sovereign knowledge that he carries, so he lovingly protects us by telling us what we need to know: we are to rest in him and live as he has ordained, while he protects us from what would overwhelm us.

You can take your life off your shoulders because God has placed it on his.

When you feel unprepared, alone, overburdened, and besieged, what but God is able to give you reason to hope again, to believe again, and to live again?

It's so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe.

It really is true that when you're living for you, the call to love others is always a burden for you

Hij zei: 'Filip, schep het verleden om vrij te zijn voor de toekomst. Trek je eigen karikatuur en je bent ervan af.' Hij antwoordde: 'Goed Filip, maar wat met de schuwe wezel van het schuldgevoel, het vlugge nooit voldane roofdier?

Nor could she help him with the guilt burden of the jilting of the girl to whom he had promised himself and whose life might be irretrievably wrecked by his decision. And this, too, Jerry was able to face... for the war had taught him that life is pitiless and that there is forgiveness for many things, but not for weakness.

depression haunts the lives of many

Healthy in body and mind, I end my life before pitiless old age which has taken from me my pleasures and joys one after another; and which has been stripping me of my physical and mental powers, can paralyse my energy and break my will, making me a burden to myself and to others

on his own shoulder and lumber down the aisle between thirty-foot-high

He could not do most things, and what he could do, he did. But William had always been capable of many things. The stress of choice had weighed on him.

a lot of the time we don't tell anyone because we can't.