At some point you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills you will need more and more help.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void whose world will give us shelter?
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.