Quotes About Burden

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

The 2010 Global Burden of Disease study of 291 conditions ranked low back pain as the highest cause of disability and sixth in terms of overall burden.

When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

No wonder his father got drunk. He would get drunk too if he had to keep buying things without money.

Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.

And, just as in the Roman Empire the rich had found ways of avoiding paying taxes, so also now the main burden fell upon the mass of the population. Thus, in Commynes's words, 'it was pitiful to see and learn about the poverty of the people.

God knows the burdens you carry and the tears you shed. He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams and broken lives. Trust Him; He never fails.

It was a good memory, so he drove it down, crushed it. It only made things harder.

John Kerry was saddled with more baggage than a curbside porter at Dulles airport.

A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden of the story is to the author's psyche.

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he sagged as if with a moral or psychic burden; his shoulders sagged, his eyes sagged, his suit sagged and he sat sagged in his chair, as if his disappointments with the world were bearing down on him. He made it clear that Shahid was one of these disappointments.

Chains are but an ill wearing, how much Care soever hath been taken to file and polish them.

He carried Hell with him, as we all did, like a little load on our backs that we hardly noticed most of the time, or like a huge great hump of suffering that bent us over with its weight.

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

This is the first real conversation we're having and already I'm burdening you with my emotional baggage.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

I said I was looking for the temple of the saints, in order to find myself. He told me I didn't need the temple, he would show me all I needed to know. Here is what it takes, he said, and he set his burden on the ground and stood straight. "But what do I do when I go home? I asked. Simple, he said. When you go home you do this—and he put the burden back on his shoulder.

Japan: A stranger hands you a stone and asks you to hold it. Puzzled, you take it. The stone grows. And grows until you are crushed