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

  • I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long.

    Sadness   Light   Years  
  • If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

    Water   Forgiving   Enemy  
    Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”
  • Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

    Tombstone   Lying   Heart  
  • If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

    Men   Burden   Should  
    Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.471, Macmillan
  • How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide and deny it. You—you never hid your feelings. Looking back, it was clear and plain, and yet I never saw it. I was astonished when Tessa told me that you were engaged. You’ve always been the source in my life of such good things, James. I never thought you would be the source of pain, and so, wrongly, I never thought of your feelings at all. And that is why I was so blind.

    Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.243, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Spiritual   Past   Mind  
    Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.60, New World Library
  • A heart's a heavy burden.

    Heart   Burden   Heavy  
    "Fictional character: Young Sophie". "Howl's Moving Castle", www.imdb.com. 2004.
  • Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

    Men   Choices   Liberty  
  • You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see. And the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Sweet   Love Is   Light  
  • The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

    Mother   Crime   Burden  
    Jean Racine (1885). “Racine's Phèdre, literally tr. by R. Mongan”
  • Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

    "Science friction", www.theguardian.com. September 21, 1999.
  • Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

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

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

  • Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.

    Self   People   Defining  
    Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 14, 2006.
  • Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

  • My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy burden for me. But I took it on consciously, even though it was torture for me.

    Views   Decision   World  
  • I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

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

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

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

    Soul   Chaos   Burden  
    Song: Paper Thin Hotel, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977
  • 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 (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”
  • All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

    Alan Dershowitz (2008). “Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons
  • Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape.

    Fun   Long   Suffering  
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  • Fame is a heavy burden.

    Fame   Burden   Heavy  
  • 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 (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.319, Hoover Press
  • Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

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