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Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Ever had a bad hair day -
a day when everything seemed to be going wrong?
Perhaps today is a day to soothe your ruffled feathers,
take a deep breath, and reaffirm that
the weight of the world is really not on your shoulders,
unless you choose to assume that burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you choose to carry resentment and hatred,
you are shouldering an immense burden that damages
your happiness, and often your health.
Does it matter that your resentment and hatred are "justified?"
Only you suffer - not the person you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Life is about more than today, and more than yourself.
What will your legacy be?
What will your great-grandchildren be told about you?
Creating a legacy does not have to be a burden,
it can be your joy and can create
your satisfaction with living each day.
What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your
kids are all healthy and relatively normal,
but when you add on some kind of disability or disease,
it can just be such a burden.
- Patricia Heaton
The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
- Allen Ginsberg
People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting.
It's a burden.
- Catherine Deneuve
God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
- Reggie White
Religion is not a burden, not a weight,
it is wings.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
- Ieyasu Tokugawa
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
- Coretta Scott King
Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
- Goran Persson
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump;
you may be freeing him from being a camel.
- M. Kathleen Casey
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
- Nicolas Boileau
Tranquil pleasures last the longest;
we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them -
cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden
from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
- Bill Delahunt
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a
serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden,
knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
- John Acton
Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.
- Richard G. Scott
Segregation was a burden for many blacks,
because the end of the civil war and the amendments
added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond
reality in some respects.
- Ed Smith
Because the world is in economic recession,
which worsened since this drama happened,
and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
- Omar Bongo
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent
a culture is an onerous burden.
- Amy Tan
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
- Jeremy Collier
To the extent that I considered the personal burden
of harming the people who had trusted me,
plus the Agency, or the United States,
I wasn't processing that.
- Aldrich Ames
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
- Lord Acton
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
He who is of 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
When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me,
and the realization of what I had done.
And it led me then to make the further step,
a change of loyalties.
- Aldrich Ames
The burden of the past is only, I think,
oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
- Jonathan Miller
If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night,
be sure that something is wrong.
Clothes should not be a burden.
They should be a comfort and a protection.
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
If you love your children, if you love your country,
if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves,
burden not your children or your country with them.
- Richard V. Allen
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least
himself and burden others most with the things for
which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
- Theodor Adorno
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable,
than a pen.
- Petrarch
Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump.
The double burden of these added expenses will be far
too much for many families.
- Russ Carnahan
We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which,
though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time,
would be out of place here.
- Erich Maria Remarque
It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God
has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help
ease any burden that might weigh upon you.
- Bobby Womack
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
- Bob Schaffer
Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and
worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way,
free from the burden of making a living?
- James Rouse
I think there have been some periods when the writing
almost became a bit of a burden.
- Leo Ornstein
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars,
instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
- James Madison
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure.
It's been a constant burden in my life.
- Lisa Marie Presley
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
- Charles Dickens
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive
that you could say about black people.
That's a terrible burden.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies
have put up a few billion dollars,
but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.
- Jim Cooper
We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of
our lives we wanted to give everybody.
We had just given a little too much,
and it started to become a burden.
- Brian Austin Green
Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years
was a considerable burden on Japan's national power
and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
- Tojo Hideki
Every burden is a blessing.
- Walt Kelly
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
- Ruth Rendell
While there are many influences on gas prices in America,
I believe the passage of a national energy bill will
help relieve this burden on our country.
- Paul Gillmor
The United States has the burden to lead for peace.
And not just peace - we need peace with justice,
a much harder goal.
- Jeff Sessions
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are
more and more grim problems,
but I don't know that I want to burden third-
and fourth-graders with them.
- Beverly Cleary
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison,
and to bear it is an art.
And to have that art is rare.
- Oriana Fallaci
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
- Voltaire
To lose a son under those circumstances -
a violent death like my son went through,
it just puts a burden on your heart.
- Brian Jones
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
- Edwin Louis Cole
OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools
are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the
bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.
- Estelle Morris
There is no way to ease the burden.
The voyage leads on from harm to harm,
A land of others and of silence.
- Donald Justice
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not
to take his burden from him,
but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
- Phillips Brooks
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden
of some idea or feeling off his mind.
- Max Nordau
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
- Jane Pauley
Being noticed can be a burden.
Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed.
So I disappear a lot.
- Bob Dylan
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is
too small to be made into a burden.
- Corrie Ten Boom
The burden of disease falls on the poor.
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
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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