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“In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.”

Ifs World Hard Enough Feelings Today Hard Work Smart Burden Clever Anything Is Possible Today's World

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.”

Way Feelings Running Air Goes On Solitude Burden Contrary Yesterday Running Away Get Over

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family.”

Feelings Political Asks Games Fun Plans Responsible Institutions Burden Enormous Our Family Dramatic Frustration New Beginnings Taxation Helplessness Political Institutions

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, "My God, my God!"”

Ifs Littles Feelings Spirit Prayer Cry Burden Agony Sincerely Praying To God Swelling Kneeling Sincere Prayer

Author:William Mountford

“That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.”

“My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.”

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale