Quotes About Burdens

When we finally decide to submit our life and our will to God's direction, our burdens will become manageable. When we let him do the driving, we will "find rest" for our soul. He knows the way and has the strength to turn us around and get us on the road toward recovery.

We can all fight the battles of just one day. It is when we add the burdens of two uncontrollable days, yesterday and tomorrow, that we get overwhelmed.

Simplifying the tax code and reducing administrative burdens will save small businesses money and time and let owners and employees focus less on paperwork and more on how to operate in this tough economy.

If you do not first lighten yourself and your soul of the weight of your burdens, moving about will only increase their pressure on you, as a ship's cargo is less troublesome when lashed in place… It is our own self we have to isolate and take back into possession.

The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest if burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

I don't think any of us wanted most of what's been given to us these past few weeks. We didn't want any of it to happen. But it has. I think I understand what that means. It means we must exercise grace in the face of fear and doubt and loss of belief. It means we must understand that this is how life works ? that it challenges us; it tests us. It gives us burdens to bear, and the measure of who we are is how we manage those burdens.

Everyone has troubles in their life.

Burdens were born from the loss of innocence. Naïveté. While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible.

Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

I believe I can solve others' problems. It's great when it works, but for the most part, it's very unappealing.

It is on-line that the purest brands are being built: liberated from the real world burdens of stores and product manufacturingg, these brands are free to soar, less as the disseminations of goods or services than as collective hallucinations.

the pile of personal problems in their inboxes grew higher.

Forcing women to go through the side door to access essential forms of health care imposes logistical and financial burdens.

We have to be thoughtful about the burdens we insist that other people carry, especially when we don't have to carry those same burdens ourselves.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

Life was so much easier before I had to worry about everyone else worrying', Irene muttered. 'It's called growing up, dear. It comes with staying alive.

Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Don't borrow tomorrow's burdens, my gram used to say.

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.