Burden Quote by Hugh MacLennan Download Open image “Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.” — Hugh MacLennan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burden Captivity Love Self Turns
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The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do. — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted. — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless. — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
“Timothy's eyes followed the straight back, the high shoulders, and the crisp white hair out of the door and out of his life --… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
“This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at night it was an island of dark in the city's blaze.” — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
“Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into sheep, but… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
“There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
“It was as though the whole world was thrown back six or seven hundred years without having the organizations those ancient peoples had." He… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me. — Seungri Copy Share Image
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With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
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