Burden Quotes
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A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.
William Butler Yeats
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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
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I can only imagine how he must feel without that shadow, without that burden hanging over him. Just look in his eyes. I've never seen him more vibrant. There's more sparkle in his eyes, more energy.
Brian Billick
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Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
Flannery O'Connor
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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
William Jennings Bryan
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The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
William James
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.
Daniel Pinchbeck
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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
Scott Turow
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It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
William Graham Sumner
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It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, not the weight.
Conn Iggulden
