Burden Quotes - Page 16

• If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

  Yoko Ono

  Judgement, Clouded, Ifs

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2015

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• For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

  Walter de La Mare

  Swans, Evening Light, Sorrow

  Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

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• There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, "My God, my God!"

  William Mountford

  Prayer, Agony, Feelings

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 466), 1895.

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• There's no way to avoid a burden on your freedom. The costs themselves are a burden on your freedom. The restrictions that are necessary in order to get rid of the terrorists are a burden to your freedom. So there's no way in the short run to avoid a restriction on your freedom.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Order, Cost

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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

  Weight, Stuff, Horrible

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• When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you," He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Giving, Tests, Trust Me

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 598, 1895.

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• Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Retirement, Prayer, Blessed

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

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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 Reinhardt

  Art, Artist

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ego, Steps, Joyful

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 177), 1992.

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• All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Eye, Names, Credit

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.37, Crown Business

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• The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting part of my life; opposition members attacked me, I fought back, I won or lost or held them to draw, and the next day we did it all over again.

  Jean Chretien

  Next Day, Challenges, Too Much

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

  Benjamin Graham

  Cost, Financial, Great Depression

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter IX, The Cost of the Reservoir Plan, p. 114, 1937.

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• The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Father, Real, Native American

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Opposites, Way, Philosopher

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “The Careful Use of Compliments”, p.29, Anchor

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• In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Girl, Mother, Strong

  "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 221), 1970.

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• We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Yield, Income, Subsidies

  1987 Quiddities,'Gambling'.

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• There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

  Isak Dinesen

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Struggle, Men, Giving

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• Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Suffering

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• Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations lose power in your life. Because your Father in Heaven loves you profoundly, the Atonement of Jesus Christ makes that strength possible. Isn’t it wonderful? Many of you have felt the burden of poor choices, and each of you can feel the elevating power of the Lord’s forgiveness, mercy, and strength.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• Every burden prepares you for eternity.

  Basilea Schlink

  Eternity

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• I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

  John Owen

  Men, Sorrow, Sin

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• Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Disappointment, Giving, Touching

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Prayers in the Congregation”, p.88

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• If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Anxiety, Unhappy

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• Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

  Anais Nin

  Guilt, Bears, Humans

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