Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.
Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life.
The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.
Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.
Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.
Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.