Lighten The Load Quotes

#1. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

Maya Angelou

#2. We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

Ann Romney

#3. I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

Dorothy Parker

#4. A hundred different paths may lighten the world's load of suffering. Giving up meat is one path; giving up bananas is another. The more we know about our food system, the more we are called into complex choices.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#6. I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another's load this day as I fare along.

Mary Susanne Edgar

#7. We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

Justin Cronin

#8. Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

Joni Mitchell

#9. And without delay, turn to the Lord. Exercise all of the faith you have in Him. Let Him share your burden. Allow His grace to lighten your load.

Donald L. Hallstrom

#10. When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Denis Diderot

#11. Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

Gautama Buddha

#12. We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.

Ravi Zacharias

#13. About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.

Alan Thicke

#14. Dread not to climb the mountain, for the higher you rise, your load will lighten; for once on top, easy be the stroll to the meadow down below

Nancy B. Brewer

#15. What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Thomas Sowell

#16. The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

Aimee Mann

#17. Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten.

Frederick William Faber

#18. If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

Alan Thicke

#19. Difficulties we don't deserve happen to all of us. Yet, when we dream, we begin to make meaning of these challenges. We give ourselves hope, and we can hope that the sorrow and pain we've walked through will help lighten someone else's load.

Whitney Johnson

#20. If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.

Wes Fesler

#21. Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

Julian Baggini

#22. Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.

Alan Redpath

#23. I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

Margaret Cho

#24. God's at work, lightening every load!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. We lighten the loads of others best by helping the Lord strengthen them.

Henry B. Eyring

#26. I need you with me, Raven. You chase away the shadows and lighten the terrible load that threatens to drown me.

Christine Feehan

#27. Of metal, if one combined a truss with an arch, if one built diagonal

Ayn Rand

#28. Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Walter Bagehot

#29. Sing your way home at the close of the day. Sing your way home; drive the shadows away. Smile every mile, for whenever you roam It will brighten your road, It will lighten your load If you sing your way home.

Carys Bray