quotes about Burden
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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
-- Ai WeiweiSource : Ai Weiwei @aiww, twitter.com. April 21, 2014.
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Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
-- Alexander MeiklejohnSource : Alexander Meiklejohn (2005). “Education Between Two Worlds”, p.265, Transaction Publishers
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
-- Alice HoffmanSource : Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”
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When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off.
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his burden didn't feel any lighter. but he felt strong enough to carry it
-- Amish Tripathi -
Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.
-- Anais Nin -
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The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.
-- Anders Fogh RasmussenSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
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We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
-- Ann RomneySource : "Ann Romney: You Gotta Have Faith" by Sunlen Miller, abcnews.go.com. June 15, 2007.
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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
-- Anne TylerSource : Anne Tyler (2003). “Saint Maybe”
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My color is my joy and not my burden...
-- Bebe Moore CampbellSource : Bebe Moore Campbell (2000). “Brothers and Sisters”, Berkley Publishing Group
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
-- Bill Watterson -
Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
-- Blanka Vlasic -
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Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
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You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.
-- Brandon LeeSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
-- Calvin Trillin -
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There is no greater burden than great potential.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential
-- Cheryl RichardsonSource : "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
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Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.
-- David -
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
-- David BaileySource : "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.
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I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.
-- David Ignatow -
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God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.
-- David Livingstone -
Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.
-- Delbert L. Stapley -
Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.
-- Drew KarpyshynSource : Drew Karpyshyn (2013). “Children of Fire: (The Chaos Born 1)”, p.235, Random House
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We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.
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What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not.
-- Emma Stone -
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
-- Eric KripkeSource : "Executive Producer Eric Kripke and New Show Runner Sera Gamble Interview SUPERNATURAL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.
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Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
-- Ernest Becker -
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The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.
-- Ernest Becker -
Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.
-- Ernie J Zelinski -
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
-- Francois Mauriac -
...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.
-- Frantz Fanon -
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Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
-- Gao Xingjian -
The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.
-- Georg BrandesSource : Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.
-- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo -
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Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
-- Goran Persson -
No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
-- H. Bentley Glass -
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
-- Harry Browne -
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
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Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.
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Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them
-- Henning MankellSource : Henning Mankell (2013). “The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallendar Mystery”, p.140, The New Press
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People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.
-- Hillary Clinton -
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The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.
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Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.
-- Hugh MacLennanSource : Hugh MacLennan (1975). “The watch that ends the night: a novel”, Macmillan of Canada, 1975
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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I find all this money a considerable burden.
-- J. Paul Getty -
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Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.
-- James Richardson -
Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.
-- Janette OkeSource : Janette Oke (1989). “The Father of Love”, Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers
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Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?
-- Jeff VanderMeer -
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Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another
-- Jim ButcherSource : Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin
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I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.
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It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
-- John BergerSource : 1978 New Statesman,17 Aug.
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Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.
-- John Cotton -
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
-- Josemaria Escriva -
He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.
-- Joseph Hall -
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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.
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It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.
-- Judith Orloff -
You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.
-- Julius Erving -
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I was rejected, never given any expectations. ... Then at least, I won't be a burden to others. It's alright if the only one who hurts is me...!
-- Jun Mochizuki -
There is no greater burden than choosing who to save.
-- Kamahl -
I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
-- Kamisese Mara -
you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
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I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.
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You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.
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A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.
-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
-- Leo Ornstein -
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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
-- Leymah GboweeSource : "21 Leaders for the 21st Century". Interview for Women's E News, 2008.
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As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.
-- Linda S. Reeves -
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson -
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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...
-- Marcus GarveySource : Marcus Garvey (1988). “Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.189, Univ of California Press
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Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
-- Margaret Mitchell -
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
-- Marion Zimmer BradleySource : Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton (2011). “Black Trillium”, p.32, Hachette UK
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The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
-- Marty Meehan -
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One should be allowed to choose one's burden.
-- Mary ButtsSource : Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.
-- Maya Angelou -
Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.
-- Melanie BenjaminSource : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.287, Delacorte Press
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Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.
-- Merle Miller -
Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.
-- Milan Kundera -
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.
-- Mitch Daniels -
God is not an obligation or burden. God is the joy of my life!
-- Mychal Judge -
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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
-- Nicholas D. KristofSource : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.250, Vintage
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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux -
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
-- Nina Simone -
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
-- Oscar Wilde -