#burden

It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ... we always have a choice. All of us." (p. 323) ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#choices #forgiveness #happiness #hate #forgiveness

Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#friendship #grievous #hidden #hiding #friendship

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#burden #coalition #continue #cost #diplomacy

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#burden #determines #wear #yoke #you

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

#burden #dances #feeling #his #idea

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#duties #equipped #even #police #policemen

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. ↗

— Plato

#burden #calm #disposition #equally #feel

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years. ↗

— Susan Rice

#believe #burden #erase #even #i

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artists #burdens #citizen #even #know

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#believe #better #better place #burdens #bureaucracy