Burdens Of Life Quotes

• No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Worry, Today

  George Macdonald (2015). “Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood”, p.142, George Macdonald

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• Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Time, Work

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• Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Work, Mean

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Blessing, Today, Determined

  Twitter post from Dec 06, 2016

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• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!

  James Van Praagh

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

  James Van Praagh (2011). “Watching Over Us: What the Spirits Can Teach Us About Life”, p.220, Random House

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• When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Crush, Stronger

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• Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Use, Leisure

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.118

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• The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Grace, Life Is, God Love

  William Bernard Ullathorne (1998). “Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians”, p.19, Sophia Institute Press

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• Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

  Mitch Albom

  Storm, News, Limits

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• I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Wish, Helping, Release

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• Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Tree, Fly Away

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• Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Light, Spirit, Heaviness

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.139

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• Experience has taught me that if we, like President Monson, exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not be overwhelmed with the burdens of life. We will not feel incapable of doing what we are called to do or need to do. We will be strengthened, and our lives will be filled with peace and joy.We will come to realize that most of what we worry about is not of eternal significance—and if it is, the Lord will help us. But we must have the faith to look up and the courage to follow His direction.

  Carl B. Cook

  Exercise, Worry, Joy

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Drunk

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• Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.

  Ajahn Chah

  Letting Go, Struggle, Attachment

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• There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Eye, Your Smile

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.61

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• 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

  Life, Men, Air

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• Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

  Frederick Banting

  Medicine, Physicians, May

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• I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

  Humphry Davy

  Land, Brain, Lasts

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

  William Graham Sumner

  Winning, Men, Order

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays”

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• The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Art, Attitude, Creativity

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