Burden Quotes - Page 9

• Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

  Alexander Meiklejohn

  Opportunity, Civilization, Atheism

  Alexander Meiklejohn (2005). “Education Between Two Worlds”, p.265, Transaction Publishers

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• These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace and they have real consequences on the every day lives of workers.

  P. M. Forni

  Stress, Real, Tolls

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

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Ideas, Deeper

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• For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, California, Space

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• Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Acceptance, Differences, People

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• In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Children, Fall, Caring

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• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

  Harold B. Lee

  Thanksgiving, Long, Fruit

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• The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Night, Yawning

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• If it were not for the assurance that I have that the Lord is near to us, guiding, directing, the burden would be almost beyond my strength, but because I know that He is there, and that He can be appealed to, and if we have ears to hear attuned to Him, we will never be left alone.

  Harold B. Lee

  Would Be, Ears, Lord

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• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

  Harold B. Lee

  Forgiveness, Bears, Life Is

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• Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

  Philip Rieff

  Past, Men, Weight

  Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Reading, Optimistic

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?

  Marion D. Hanks

  Giving, Bully, Joy

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• There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Japan, Pay, Shifting

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• We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Country, Practice, World

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• Clearly people should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness! But I think that for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy. We're doing a job that is not a celebrity job or an entertainment or fashion job.... In a professional setting, treat us as professionals.... And it takes a lot of time. I've often laughed with my male colleagues, like, "What did you do? You took a shower, you combed your hair, you put your clothes on. I couldn't do that."

  Hillary Clinton

  Fashion, Eye, Thinking

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• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Lying, Thinking

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• Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Giving, Ungrateful

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.182, Discovery House

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• The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Self, Wish

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• The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Advice, Secret, Troublesome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Essays, III. 1, 1922.

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• The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hypocrisy, Villainy

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “The Rambler: By Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.108

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• The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

  Alice Cary

  Dream, Done, Break

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.122

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• The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

  Jean Racine

  Mother, Crime, Heavy

  Jean Racine (1885). “Racine's Phèdre, literally tr. by R. Mongan”

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• Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Thankfulness, Able, Bears

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