Disburden Quotes & Sayings

I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world. — Mary McFadden

Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows. — Dan Chaon

You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think. — A.A. Milne

There are so many works of the mind, so much humanity, that to disburden ourselves of ourselves is an understandable temptation. Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader's store of hypotheses about how life is to be understood. As with scientific hypotheses, even failure is meaningful, a test of the boundaries of credibility. So many voices, so many worlds, we can weary of them. If there were only one human query to be heard in the universe, and it was only the sort of thing we were always inclined to wonder about
Where did all this come from? or, Why could we never refrain from war?
we would hear in it a beauty that would overwhelm us. So frail a sound, so brave, so deeply inflected by the burden of thought, that we would ask, Whose voice is this? We would feel a barely tolerable loneliness, hers and ours. And if there were another hearer, not one of us, how starkly that hearer would apprehend what we are and were. — Marilynne Robinson

My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy. — Chris Stapleton

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right. — Anuj