“Of course, I tried to surround myself with other people like me whose dream of writing was a constant burden…” — Gerard Olson Copy Share Image
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs… — C. K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I meant it when I said she was the greatest first lady ever. Because she viewed the presidency and being first lady… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As women, we're supposed to bear the burden of raising our families and then also financially providing for them as well, and… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
“Suddenly he realised that he had lost also that burden of responsibility which made every action of his life a matter of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Taking care of those you love should never feel like a burden to you. It should never be a burden to you.… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
“We travel light despite the weighty darkness of existence that falls upon us like night.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“She felt the burden of loneliness lift from her, unaware that she had long been wearing it's mantle.” — Trudy Brasure Copy Share Image
If, for people, Instagram is just entertainment, for me, it's an additional burden. — Ramzan Kadyrov Copy Share Image
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better!… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams. — Les Brown Copy Share Image
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
