Heavy Burdens Quotes

• Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Journey, Long, Life Is Like

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

  King Edward VIII

  Responsibility, Impossible, Royalty

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Art, Poison, Bears

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

  David McCallum

  Creative, Energy, Conformity

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

  King Edward VIII

  Love, Kings, Women

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

  Voltaire

  Idols, Names, Fame

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• Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.

  Susan Collins

  Struggle, Drug, Cost

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• A heart's a heavy burden.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Burden, Heavy

  "Fictional character: Young Sophie". "Howl's Moving Castle", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Strong, Light, Giving

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• Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

  John Cotton

  Love, Light, Burden

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• If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Past, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.60, New World Library

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• Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sweet, Love Is, Light

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

  Sri Chinmoy

  Stupid, Mind, Resentment

  "Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#16575, Part 17), 1998.

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• Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tombstone, Lying, Heart

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• Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers

  Joyce Meyer

  Phones, People, Thrones

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• Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

  Jim Butcher

  Way, Sometimes, Burden

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin

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• Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo

  William Shakespeare

  Burden, Heavy

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Day Care, Parent

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.319, Hoover Press

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• Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Progress, Taxation

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Message of the President of the United States to the Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, December 3 1924”

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• Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Blessing, Monkeys, Action

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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• This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

  Tsitsi Dangarembga

  Burden, Heavy, Womanhood

  1988 Nervous Conditions, ch.1.

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• The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kings

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• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Champion

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• And so I am this pilgrim - if I can somehow answer your question - who's constantly amazed by this journey. Who is learning a new thing every single day. But who's not accumulating knowledge, because then it becomes a very heavy burden in your back. I am this person who is proud to be a pilgrim, and who's trying to honor his journey.

  Paulo Coelho

  Journey, Honor, Trying

  "The Alchemy of Pilgrimage". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 14, 2014.

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