“The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“I love Lena Horne's "It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it."And Annie Dillard"s roughly remembered: Sometimes you have to just jump off the edge and find your wings on the way down.”

“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.”

“What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.”