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Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated. — Joan D. Chittister

Our love is our burden. — Julianna Baggott

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

Every man must bear his own burden. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

The Doctor gave a modest shrug. Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with. — Jacqueline Rayner

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer. — J. Oswald Sanders

You must suffer me to go my own dark way. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Invade a man's privacy and then put the burden on him. — Rex Stout

Things unused burden and beset. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The girl forgives you, not because shehas become a saint but because she can no longer bear to carry this burden of hatred. Hating is very wearisome. — Paulo Coelho

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught. — Brooks Atkinson

But his heart had been made as a match for Elaine's, and now it was unable to bear the burden which hers had been forced to lay down. — T.H. White

A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship. — J. Loren Norris

I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now. — Paul David Tripp

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish Proverb (p. 117) — Jenny Sanford

George Washington famously warned against ... 'ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear — George Washington

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

Prayer shouldn't be a burden but a privilege - God wants our fellowship. — Billy Graham

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

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

We have to be ready for the blessings God tosses at us. In order to catch your blessing, you have to let go of your burden. — Raylene Roybal

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego. — Anthony De Mello

Whenever you're having a burden in your heart, share it to those people whom you trust. It'll make you feel better. — Jayson Engay

I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden. — Wallace Stegner

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness. — Katharine Hepburn

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? — Winifred Holtby

Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you! — Anne Tyler

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

God will give the strength of ripe manhood - with the burden allotted to full-grown shoulders. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations. — Christian Bale

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier

Not every burden is burden! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The burden of my anxiety is not my child's. — Paula Heller Garland

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The burden of that responsibility wicked the blood from hes stomach ans sent it crashing through her arteries, — Stephen Lloyd Jones

And his love was heavy and hot, but not at all the burden I'd imagined it would be because he carried it for me, I realized now. — Laurelin Paige

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage. — Elbert Hubbard

You know I have loved him always.
But we are very poor.
Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden ... — Oscar Wilde

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

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

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with. — Aporva Kala

It had borne the burden, it had earned the honor - — Mark Twain

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

Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

We yell and scold as a way of paying homage to each other's views. This is the burden of friendship between extremely high-strung individuals. — Don DeLillo

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure. — Aunjanue Ellis

I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge. — David Blaine

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny. — Carlos Slim

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror. — Amy Tan

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. — Kenneth Clark

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

I didn't want to upset my loved ones, but I couldn't carry this alone. — Julie Flygare

Just live as simply you are.
Don't take a burden too much. — Nao Crimson

Some of us walk about with the burden of old wounds. What must it be like to have the burden of ... healing? — Julie Anne Long

Fullness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage;
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age. — John Bunyan

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden. — Lauren Bacall

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me. — Steve Maraboli

Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it. — Mark Twain

I'm sorry, Laynie. That's going to have to come from him. My point is that you're not his burden. You're his reason. — Laurelin Paige

The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all. — Oscar Wilde

The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. — Allen Ginsberg

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great. — Alexander McCall Smith

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth. — Mahatma Gandhi

You don't have to take upon yourself the burden of murder or madness to be free of this place. Surly there must be other ways. — Anne Rice

Helen hadn't realized how heavy the burden of hate had been until she was allowed to put it down. — Josephine Angelini

Blood shed stands, therefore, not for the release of life from the burden of the flesh, but for the bringing to an end of life in the flesh. — Alan Stibbs

To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you. — James Richardson

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. — Harold Bloom

Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days. — Ed Greenwood

He didn't want to be one more burden, but the person who held her up, the soft place she fell, the reason she endured and was happy. — Jennifer Ryan

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

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

the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable. — Gail Godwin

Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine. — Alain De Botton

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. — Ruth Rendell

The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment. — Sri Chinmoy

I don't know why it's the girls who always seem to have to take on that kind of burden. — Courtney Summers

she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice. — Chas Newkey-Burden

Freedom means choosing your burden. — Hephzibah Menuhin

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

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential — Cheryl Richardson

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable. — Phillips Brooks

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

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind. — Gautama Buddha

It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness. — Maya Angelou

Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent. — John Steinbeck

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

The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. — Milan Kundera

Burden of life becomes a real burden when not shared! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our strengths are not our own until they are freed of the burden of having to heal the past. — Jonathan Raymond