#burdens

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#class #classes #crush #each #extreme

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#death

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

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

— Toni Morrison

#empowerment #flying #freedom #unburdening #weight

You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they’ve never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn’t. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you’re forced to rewrite them entirely. You can’t walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it’s all dead and you know it’s going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute. -Emma ↗

— Rachael Wade

#grief #letting-go #love

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#burdens #enjoy #life #little #none

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. ↗

— George Washington

#burdens #governments #history #laid #marvel

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#choose #only #put #you

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#businesses #challenges #compensation #cost #employee

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#burdens #could #heavy #i #i always