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

  John Cotton

  Love, Light, Burden

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

  Max Planck

  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

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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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• 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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• A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

  Leonard Cohen

  Soul, Chaos, Burden

  Song: Paper Thin Hotel, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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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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• The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Memorable, Responsibility, Men

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