Quotes About Carrying Your Own Weight

#1. I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.

Sharon Osbourne

#3. He was carrying a little more weight, his hair greyer, but he looked healthy and relaxed, like a man who was comfortable with where he was in life and what lay ahead.

Kevin Wignall

#4. Facing our fears, skeletons, and mistakes is paramount in finding ourselves-in living with ourselves. Once it's done, that fear will be laid to rest, and she'll be stronger for having dealt with it and have more peace becausse she's not carrying the weight of that fear every day and night.

Cindy Woodsmall

#5. But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth
And the filth in the heart of Man
Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
than that of the Sun.

Edith Sitwell

#6. Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?

Andrew Klavan

#7. But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.

Lilith Saintcrow

#8. For example, obesity costs the average person an extra $1,429 per year in increased health care costs. But since we're not required to set aside money for every burger we consume (to cover the real financial cost of the burger), the long-term costs of carrying extra weight remain invisible.

Kerry Patterson

#9. We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.

George Vecsey

#10. The grief doesn't go away, ... But you ... get used to it, you know? It's like carrying a heavy stone, one that's really too heavy for you: you learn to settle the weight properly, and then you get used to it, and then sometimes you can forget you're carrying it.

Rachel Neumeier

#11. One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people's suspicions.

Jonathan Capehart

#12. I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world.

John Green

#13. What it has meant to stay alive when my daughter did not. What it has meant to suffer a heartbeat after carrying the weight and form of her inside my body, wedged just beneath that fist-shaped muscle.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#14. You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.

Prashant Chopra

#15. If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Samuel West

#16. If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

Ted Trueblood

#17. I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

Diane Sawyer

#18. No matter how bad your diet is, no matter how much excess weight you're carrying around, no matter how many food-related mistakes you've made in the past, you can start fresh now.

Travis Stork

#19. It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Kate Smith

#20. I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

Avicii

#21. I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

Billy Joel

#22. Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.

Monica Seles

#23. It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

Robert Jordan

#24. Tiring because he felt prematurely the weight of carrying how stupidly fucking sad this was for the rest of his days.

Brian McGreevy

#25. I've held it together all this time. I've held it together because I had to, carrying the grief and the fear even when I thought the weight would crush me.

Claudia Gray

#26. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The inhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that. Moved and

Rachel Joyce

#27. Sometimes you don't feel the weight of something you have been carrying until you feel the weight if its released.

Unknown

#28. be withdrawn and seemed as if he was carrying the weight of

B.J. Harvey

#29. I just feel like even the ugliest truth feels a whole lot better than carrying around the weight of lies.

Ginger Scott

#30. I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable."
"How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.

Lisa Kleypas