7 Quotes Tagged: burdens

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

Your burden is not to clear your conscience
But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.

You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?

I'm not young. I've never had any youth.

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!