“Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“What makes loneliness an anguish
Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
But this:
I have only my own burden to bear.”
Markings (1964)
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Swedish diplomat, economist, and author 1905–1961Related quotes
“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Susannah Constantine (1962) British fashion designer and journalist
As quoted in "Acne, alcohol … and non-stop sex" by Lynda Lee-Potter in Daily Mail (6 September 2003)
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Points of View (1959) Ch. 1
“Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Variant: Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
Source: Gone with the Wind
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CXVI: On Real Ethics as Superior to Syllogistic Subtleties
“Is it for this purpose that we are strong—that we may have light burdens to bear?”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind
