Quotes about Burden
No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
— Viktor E. Frankl
hand. When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
— Viktor E. Frankl
When a man finds it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
— Viktor E. Frankl
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
— Charles Dickens
We forge the chains we wear in life.
— Charles Dickens
Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.
— Charles Dickens
This world abounds indeed with misery: to lighten its burthen we must divide it with one another.
— Thomas Jefferson
When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
— Thomas a Kempis
Why are Christians so disquieted in their minds? They are taking care when they should be casting care.
— Thomas Watson
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
— Oscar Wilde