100+ Burden Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Executive Producer Eric Kripke and New Show Runner Sera Gamble Interview SUPERNATURAL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.

topic: Perspective, Burden, Mythology

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

- Ernest Becker

topic: Responsibility, Guilt, Burden, Freedom And Responsibility

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

topic: Men, Burden, Denial Of Death

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

- Ernie J Zelinski

topic: Retirement, Burden, Retiring, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Retirement

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

topic: Ideas, Cowardice, Burden

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: World, Idiot, Burden

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

- Gao Xingjian

topic: Heart, Burden, Restriction

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

- Georg Brandes

source: Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

topic: Men, Culture, Burden, Philistines

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Revolution, Rebellion, Burden, Man And Superman

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

topic: Decision, Guidance, Burden, Unpopular Decisions

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

- Goran Persson

topic: Sorrow, Remember, Burden

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

- H. Bentley Glass

topic: Children, Parent, Burden, Future Time

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

- Harry Browne

topic: Inspirational, Burden, Shoulders

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Wings, Weight, Burden

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.

- Helen Yglesias

topic: Sisterhood, Complicated, Burden

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

- Henning Mankell

source: Henning Mankell (2013). “The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallendar Mystery”, p.140, The New Press

topic: Secret, Burden, Persons

Freedom means choosing your burden.

- Hephzibah Menuhin

topic: Mean, Adversity, Burden, Freedom To Choose

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

topic: Eye, People, Burden, Appropriateness

The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.

- Honore Daumier

topic: Men, Average, Burden

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

- Hugh MacLennan

source: Hugh MacLennan (1975). “The watch that ends the night: a novel”, Macmillan of Canada, 1975

topic: Self, Captivity, Burden

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

- Iggy Pop

topic: Musical, Actors, Burden

I find all this money a considerable burden.

- J. Paul Getty

topic: Burden, Possession

Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.

- James Richardson

topic: Burden, Value Yourself, Values

Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.

- Janette Oke

source: Janette Oke (1989). “The Father of Love”, Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers

topic: Optimistic, Blessing, Burden

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

- Jean Racine

topic: Mother, Crime, Burden, Heavy Burdens

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

- Jeff VanderMeer

topic: Watches, Burden, Bigger

Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin

topic: Way, Sometimes, Burden, Heavy Burdens

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.

- Joe Shuster

topic: Art, Burden, Heavy

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.

- Johann Lamont

topic: Economic, Burden, Crisis, Economic Crisis

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

- John Berger

source: 1978 New Statesman,17 Aug.

topic: Memories, Cameras, Burden

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

- John Cotton

topic: Love, Light, Burden, Heavy Burdens

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

topic: Might, Helping, Burden

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

topic: Triumph, Crowns, Burden, Chastity Purity

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

topic: Care, Burden, Vain

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.

- Joseph Hume

topic: Peculiar, Protection, Burden, Relieved

It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.

- Judith Orloff

topic: Emotional, Issues, Burden

Our love is our burden.

- Julianna Baggott

topic: Love Is, Our Love, Burden

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

topic: My Family, Burden, Family Friends, Extended Family

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

topic: Hurt, Expectations, Burden, Pandora Hearts

There is no greater burden than choosing who to save.

- Kamahl

topic: Burden

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

topic: Children, Clubs, Burden, Treasury

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

topic: Honor, Burden, Shoulders

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

- King Edward VIII

topic: Responsibility, Impossible, Burden, Help And Support, Discharge

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.

- Larry Tesler

topic: Tasks, Burden, Programming

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

topic: Pioneers, Soap, Burden

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

- Leo Ornstein

topic: Writing, Thinking, Burden

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

- Leymah Gbowee

source: "21 Leaders for the 21st Century". Interview for Women's E News, 2008.

topic: Bears, Burden, Nurture

As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.

- Linda S. Reeves

topic: Honor, Covenant, Burden

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

topic: Wish, Helping, Burden, Burdens Of Life

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

topic: Burden, Mayors, Heavy

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...

- Marcus Garvey

source: 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

topic: Ignorance, World, Burden

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Strong, Enough, Burden

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

- Marion Zimmer Bradley

source: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton (2011). “Black Trillium”, p.32, Hachette UK

topic: Speak, Burden

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

topic: Iraq, Hurricanes, Burden

One should be allowed to choose one's burden.

- Mary Butts

source: Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company

topic: Trouble, Burden, Should

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Relief, Trouble, Burden

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

topic: Giving, Resentment, Burden, Relieved, Love And Courage

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 Benjamin

source: Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.287, Delacorte Press

topic: Responsibility, Burden, Feels

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

- Merle Miller

topic: Attitude, Burden, Keep A Positive Attitude, Best Attitude

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Gains, Weight, Burden

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

topic: Burden, Should, Spending, Inverted, Presumption

God is not an obligation or burden. God is the joy of my life!

- Mychal Judge

topic: Joy, Burden, Obligation

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

source: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.250, Vintage

topic: Tides, Beast, Burden, Beast Of Burden

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

topic: Burden

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

- Nina Simone

topic: Music, Remember, Burden

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

topic: Men, Errors, Burden

The burden becomes light that is shared by love.

- Ovid

topic: Love, Light, Burden

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

topic: Debt, Burden, Heavy, Heavy Burdens

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Perfect, Relax, Burden

We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the only possible habitation for the burden of our witnessing.

- Patricia Hampl

topic: Stories, Burden

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

- Patrick McGoohan

topic: Answers, Prison, Burden

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.15, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Unnecessary, Burden, Possession, Great Freedom, Minimalist

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

- Petrarch

topic: Burden, Pens, Lighters

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

- Pope Francis

topic: Mean, Burden, Interest

We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

- R. A. Salvatore

source: R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.176, Wizards of the Coast

topic: Expectations, People, Burden

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

- R. Kent Hughes

topic: Neighbor, Burden

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

- Raquel Welch

topic: Acceptance, Giving, Burden

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

- Reggie White

topic: Athlete, Weight, Burden

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Feet, Burden, Savior

If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise

- Richard Gerber

topic: Paradise, Cost, Burden

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

- Richard Neal

topic: Alternatives, Benefits, Burden, Tax Burden

The only burden you have ever had is your mind.

- Robert Adams

topic: Mind, Burden

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

- Robert Breault

topic: Happiness, Secret, Burden, Burden Of Proof

Every burden is a blessing.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Adversity, Blessing, Burden, Count Your Blessings

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

- Robert Penn Warren

source: Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Past, Accepting, Burden

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

- Rumi

topic: Keys, Victory, Burden

The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.

- Sam Storms

topic: Integrity, Reason, Burden

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

- Samuel Smiles

topic: May, Glory, Burden, Chastisement

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Tired, Past, Burden

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

- Scott Turow

source: "To hell with Perry Mason". The Observer Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

topic: Burden, Proof, Prosecutor, Burden Of Proof

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

- Sena Jeter Naslund

topic: Sorry, Stories, Burden, Crybabies

I would like Taeyeon unnie to be the leader, but like Hyoyeon unnie said, I think shes carrying a lot of burdens by being in that position. So, Ill just leave it to the unnies.

- Seohyun

topic: Thinking, Leader, Burden, Snsd

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

- Shaun White

topic: Land, Beast, Burden, Beast Of Burden

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

- Shelby Steele

topic: Freedom, Burden, Proof, Burden Of Proof

Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.

- Simon Sinek

topic: Opportunity, Inspire, Burden

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

- Stephen R. Lawhead

topic: Taken, Burden, Discarded

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

- Steve Toltz

topic: Burden

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

- Steven M. Greer

topic: Earth, Burden, Reaching

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

- Susan Rice

topic: Believe, Years, Burden

It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live.

- Tess Gallagher

source: Tess Gallagher (1999). “At the Owl Woman Saloon”, Scribner

topic: Burden

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Love, Light, Burden

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Bears, Burden, Crosses

The burden of the incommunicable.

- Thomas de Quincey

topic: Burden

Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Blessing, Looks, Burden

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

- Tim LaHaye

source: Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2014). “The Left Behind Collection”, p.457, NavPress

topic: Burden, Shoulders, Deeper

The call of God is what gets you out of bed everyday, not a burden for something.

- Tommy Barnett

topic: Everyday, Bed, Burden

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

- Tsitsi Dangarembga

source: 1988 Nervous Conditions, ch.1.

topic: Burden, Heavy Burdens, Heavy, Womanhood

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

- Vikram Seth

topic: Boys, Posters, Burden

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

- Vincent Piazza

topic: Growing Up, Suits, Burden, Wearing A Suit

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on ourÂ shoulders

- Virat Kohli

topic: Years, Burden, Shoulders, Cricketers, Tendulkar

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

- Voltaire

topic: Burden

Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.

- Walter Brueggemann

topic: Giving, Easy, Burden

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

- Walter Darby Bannard

topic: Art, Ideas, Burden

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

- Walter Kirn

source: Walter Kirn (2006). “Mission to America”, p.167, Anchor

topic: Believe, Blessing, Burden, My Blessing

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Wind, Mind, Burden

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

- William Jennings Bryan

topic: Littles, Action, Burden

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

- Yunus Emre

topic: Speech, Beast, Burden, Beast Of Burden

If 85 percent of Russians support the annexation of Crimea and the aggression against Ukraine, that is a very bad sign. The post-Soviet legacy is a heavy burden: Most Russians want to have the empire back. The only way it is possible to make that happen is to seize foreign territories.

- Arseniy Yatsenyuk

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Support, Legacy, Burden

I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

- Asghar Ali Engineer

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Historical, Legacy, Burden

I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes. The question isn't, "Do we want to have taxes?" The question is, "How heavy is the burden, and who bears that burden"?

- David Cay Johnston

topic: Burden, Taxes, Dislike

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

- Flannery O'Connor

source: Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.165, Macmillan

topic: Burden, Retention

Value equals benefits received for burdens endured.

- Leonard L. Berry

topic: Benefits, Burden, Values

I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

- Matt Shultz

topic: Thinking, Records, Burden

It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.

- Mike Mendez

topic: Fun, Bears, Burden

Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.

- Richard McGuire

topic: Baggage, Burden

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

- Susan Chira

topic: Motherhood, Advice, Burden

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

- David Ignatow

source: David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr

topic: Life Is, Burden, Share

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

- Robert Reed

topic: Wonderful, Imagine, Burden, Wonderful Places

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

- Roddy Doyle

topic: Problem, Burden, Being Irish

That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

- Rosalind Miles

source: Rosalind Miles (2007). “The Child of the Holy Grail: The Third of the Guenevere Novels”, p.56, Crown

topic: Grace, Mystery, Burden

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

- George Deukmejian

topic: Needs, Burden, Taxpayers

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

- Sam Ervin

topic: Light, Pathways, Burden

When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.

- T. J. Miller

source: "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

topic: Bears, Blame, Burden

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

- John Roberts

topic: Bears, Imperialism, Burden, Athenians

The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes.

- Lord Randolph Churchill

topic: Class, Burden, Parliament

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

- Leonard Cohen

source: Song: Paper Thin Hotel, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

topic: Soul, Chaos, Burden, Heavy Burdens

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.163

topic: Heaven, Suits, Burden

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Taken, Burden, Humans

We are the creators and creatures of each other, causing and bearing each other's burden.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Burden, Creator, Creatures

Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Self, Burden, Identification

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Burden, Unfulfilled Potential, Fulfillment

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Arms, Burden

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

- Cher

topic: Actresses, Serious, Burden

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

- Ai Weiwei

source: Ai Weiwei @aiww, twitter.com. April 21, 2014.

topic: Responsibility, World, Burden, Burden Of Responsibility

The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.477, St. Martin's Press

topic: Moving Forward, Emotion, Burden

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Gratitude, Imperfect, Burden

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

- Pema Chodron

source: Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.61, Shambhala Publications

topic: Thinking, Life Is, Burden

We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

- Pema Chodron

source: "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chodron, billmoyers.com. December 24, 1996.

topic: Practice, Burden