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Quotes About Burden
By peace | March 2, 2008
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. ~ Lena Home
It’s easier traveling the road of life when I don’t have so much to carry on my back.
~ Silas Weir Mitchell
God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~ Yiddish Proverb
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden. ~ Plato
If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice. ~ Chinese Proverb
Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found. ~ Rose Macaulay (1881-1958)
A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win. ~ Frances Anne Kemble
A buffalo does not feel the weight of its own horns. ~ Indian Proverb
Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children’s children and their children’s children’s children and their children’s children’s children’s children… ~ Rufina M. Laws
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. ~ St. Augustine
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nurture our culture, let’s begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long. ~ Riki Rockett
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again. ~ Jack Kornfield
None knows the weight of another’s burden. ~ George Herbert
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. ~ Hosea Ballou
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. ~ Phillips Brooks
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