"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself." ― Franz Kafka Topic(s): Great Tags: great, imposing More From Franz Kafka "Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." "Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive." "You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid." More In Great "The Oscar nomination is great. It’s a great pat on the back. And I like that."― Jeff Bridges "The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."― Blaise Pascal "A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love."― Thomas Chandler Haliburton