“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.” MayRunningOpportunityIndividualLeftGoalPathWindPureWeightOneselfBurdenBlockMotiveStoppingTrailsFrustratingDroppingShoutingSidelines Author:Criss Jami
“Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.” WorldWantChildrenHomePainLeftSouthBurdenImmigrantsBack HomeCastesFleeingCaste System Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.” LeftGoneKnowingResponsibleShameBurdenNever Quit Book:The Goldfinch Source: The Goldfinch
“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.” IfsMayChildrenSaidShowsFallCoursesLeftForcePoorPayRichEssentialsPercentCapitalismTasksSickIncreaseBurdenCaringCanadaOur SocietyStatisticsGapsFamily LifeDisabledCollisionChild CareWorking Life Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.” DoneRealityBeliefLeftFeltReligiousRegretBurdenGuiltyAnxiousSlipsBelief In GodInadequacyReligious Life Author:Karen Armstrong
“At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.” FirstsWantedLeftRolesModelsFemaleLettersBurdenAwfulRole ModelsTerrifiedAbusiveAbusive RelationshipHarleyFemale RolesHarley DavidsonFemale Role Models Author:Lucy Lawless
“Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.” PersonsDifferentCertainLeftJusticePrinciplesFiguresOughtArgumentBurdenIncomeLimitationRelativeSupporterProgressionProportionality Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.” HeartStillsJesusLeftRecordsBearsMy HeartBurdenGospel Music Author:Aretha Franklin