Burden Quotes

1396 Burden quotes by 1016 unique authors

The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. — William Bernard Ullathorne
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to… — Adi Shankara
There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them;… — Matthew Henry
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs… — Therese of Lisieux
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though… — John F. Kennedy
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage… — Joseph Addison
The reality is that the United States military alone cannot be all things to all nations. We will sharpen the application of our resources, better… — Leon Panetta
While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a… — E. Stanley Jones
I find all this money a considerable burden. — J. Paul Getty
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken… — C.S. Lewis
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge. — Mahatma Gandhi
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt… — Patti Smith
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the… — James Madison
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. — Robert Breault
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to… — Jean Baudrillard
"I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us in this effort,… — Barack Obama
The mind is everything. If you don’t believe you can do something then you can’t. If you believe that your upbringing was substandard and therefore… — Kai Greene
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life,… — Albert Einstein
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We… — Albert Einstein
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could… — Albert Einstein
When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation,… — Lucy Grealy
I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden. — Rosie O'Donnell

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