Quotes About Burden

Wearing all that weightOf learning lightly like a flower.

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

I notice the fatigue of flowers weighed down by light

why don't they lift their weight and see what's flattened underneath it?

When I looked back at my days of being a wife and mother, one of the things that most amazed me was that every day I was the one who made the decision as to what three other people would eat. It tired me out just to think about...

The mind is a leaf pile where you can bury anything....

Recuerda, hijo mio, un dragón es como un recaudador de impuestos: aunque sólo le debas un lingote de oro, te perseguirá por toda la eternidad." El Emperador

We all walk around with a stone in our shoe, Younger." William T.

Responsibility becomes stressful only when you don't feel strong enough to handle it.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love.

keeping secrets will tear you up inside.

Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don't want to remember." - Rachel Morgan

Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.

These are the things I never say to anyone anymore. Not because I don't want to say them — I want to scream them. But these are the things that no one else can bear to hear.

Cuando pasa algo malo, pero malo de verdad, por mucho que llores, lo peor no es llorar, que eso a veces está bien, porque te quedas nuevo, lo peor empieza cuando no puedes llorar más, y entonces te das cuenta de que la tristeza es algo sucio, como un grumo gris, espeso, una pelota de barro dentro de los pulmones, que pesa, y la notas al respirar, todo el tiempo.

You don't always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else's problems. Sometimes it's okay to let somebody else worry about you.

La velocidad pura, cuya finalidad no es ganar tiempo sino huir del tiempo y de todos los lastres que arrastra la duración, en el cenagal de los pensamientos sin atadura, de los cuerpos tristes, de las vidas obesas y de las rumias asmáticas

As I examine progressive revenue options, I want to make sure wealthy individuals and businesses pay their fair share, that we reduce the burden on low-income and middle-class families, and not drive businesses from Chicago or create a disincentive for businesses to invest in our city.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.