Burden Quotes - Page 20

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

  George Deukmejian

  Needs, Taxpayers

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• When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely, no place more unfamiliar. When I talk about how it is both a blessing and a burden to have those kinds of roots, it can be terribly isolating, because when you are so familiar, you know the shadow.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lonely, Blessing, Utah

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Running, Powerful

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• Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.

  Tito Colliander

  Asceticism, Ascent, Path

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.8, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

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• Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Karma, Memories, Kindness

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.

  Mary Fulbrook

  History, Democracy, Republic

  Mary Fulbrook (2014). “A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Literature, Lows

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Home, Fame

  ""It's Time for a Change"". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Heart

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• We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.

  Rick Joyner

  Christian, Taken, Self

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• For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

  Dorothy Dix

  Heart, Men, People

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• Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Choices, Liberty

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• Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.

  Pam Brown

  Horse, Distance, Moving

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• The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

  Peter Marshall

  Self, Government, Creative

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• A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt

  Dennis O'Neil

  Hurt, Men, People

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• The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a land of deep shadow a light has shone. For the yoke that was weighing upon them and the burden upon their shoulders, thou hast broken in pieces O God.

  Isaiah

  Land, Light, People

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• There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Fighting, Order

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

  Sam Ervin

  Light, Pathways, Heavy

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• Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

  Bob Edwards

  Children, Parent, Quality

  "Science friction", www.theguardian.com. September 21, 1999.

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• Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

  Jon Porter

  Crush, Teaching, School

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